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rbanffy
Do they realize that, in a car crash where the ammonia tank is punctured, everyone around it dies a horrible death?
Shoh3pif
From the article:

> [...] turning them into a commodity that can be shipped anywhere in the world and converted back into electricity or hydrogen gas to power fuel cell vehicles

rbanffy
Puncturing the hydrogen tank is pretty bad too. The death is less horrible and much quicker, however.
upofadown
The proposal here is to crack the ammonia back to hydrogen which is then used in a regular fuel cell car.
rbanffy
Would you store it in the car or feed into a pressurized tank in the car? If that's the case, you still have the problem of storing the hydrogen in the car.
manicdee
We already store pressurised gasses in cars, specifically CNG vehicles.