China Flexes Its Green Hydrogen Muscles, Trump or No Trump

US President Donald Trump has busted up plans for a domestic green hydrogen industry in the US, but other countries have moved on.

CleanTechnica
China Flexes Its Green Hydrogen Muscles, Trump or No Trump

US President Donald Trump has busted up plans for a domestic green hydrogen industry in the US, but other countries have moved on.

CleanTechnica

Given sufficient electricity, we can make #Hydrogen in quantity without reforming Methane. The #Oxygen is a probably useful byproduct.
Given heat, pressure, and a catalyst, we can combine it with atmospheric #Nitrogen to make #Ammonia, a direct fertiliser, and starting point for Nitric acid and then #Nitrates. Among #AmmoniumNitrate 's uses is fertiliser for growng food.

I think we might build an Ammonia plant next to a #fission boiler, and use #heat as well as perhaps #electricity from it.

China’s Sungrow Hydrogen racks up electrolyser sales across three continents

https://piefed.social/c/hydrogen/p/1908762/chinas-sungrow-hydrogen-racks-up-electrolyser-sales-across-three-continents

#Urea and #ammonia are critical components of
#nitrogen fertilizers and #sulfuric acid is an essential input for producing phosphate fertilizers. chart @JPMorganAM

Organic #molecules delivered from #extraterrestrial materials may have played a key role in supplying building blocks for #life on #Earth.

Now scientists report all five canonical #nucleobases—purines (#adenine and #guanine) and pyrimidines (#cytosine, #thymine and #uracil)—in samples returned from the C-type #asteroid (162173) #Ryugu.

Samples from Ryugu, #Bennu and #Orgueil, which have a similar mineralogy and elemental composition, show purine-to-pyrimidine ratios negatively correlating with #ammonia.

These observations indicate that the nucleobases in these samples may have formed via a shared pathway depending on the physicochemical environment of the respective parent bodies.

The detection of diverse nucleobases in asteroid and meteorite materials demonstrates their widespread presence throughout the Solar System and reinforces the hypothesis that carbonaceous asteroids contributed to the #prebiotic chemical inventory of early Earth.

#astronomy #astrobiology
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02791-z

A complete set of canonical nucleobases in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu - Nature Astronomy

Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases (A, G, C, T and U). Their presence in Ryugu and Bennu supports the hypothesis that carbonaceous asteroids contributed to the prebiotic chemical inventory of early Earth.

Nature

Why can't we just reverse the Haber-Bosch process?

In the latest episode, I talk to Prof. Malte Behrens @SolidStateChemCatal_Kiel about ammonia as a possible hydrogen carrier.

We dive deep into the chemistry of ammonia cracking and explain why the classic iron catalyst loses its activity. Find out how alloying iron with cobalt might just be the solution to unlocking green energy transport via ammonia!

Listen here: https://innovateandreact.com/why-reversing-the-haber-bosch-process-requires-a-new-catalyst/

#Chemistry #Catalysis #Ammonia