Thanks for this; it's fascinating stuff. And equally fascinating are all of the cautionary comments from viewers - ammonia is a really awful, vile compound when it comes in contact with any form of life, which it likely will when supply chains are up and running for devices like ammonia engines. Many of the remarks left me a bit rattled, including this one:
My grandfather has worked at a CO-OP plant by himself for the last 35 years. Let me explain the dangers of ammonia that people AREN'T speaking on. Yes everybody probably now knows that ammonia when inhaled can kill you and kill you rather quickly, but what they didn't touch on is that ammonia being a gas at room temperature means that when released into the world it travels extremely fast, and can travel "from my own experience" as far as 7 miles from the source. My grandfathers plant has around 50 different 300-500 gallon tanks, and 3 mother tanks ranging from 10k gallons for the smallest, 15k gallons, and then a 20k gallon tank. Two of the massive tanks hold standard ammonia, the 20K gallon tank holds anhydrous ammonia. When a farmer orders some AA, he takes a small tank, hooks it to his truck, pulls up to the mother tank, fills the smaller one to how much the farmer needs "by weight", and takes it to them. Now the reason he has 3 mother tanks and only ONE of them has the actual chemical they sell from his own words is "Druggies like to steal AA to make meth with, so we keep our small tanks empty because they would show up with a plastic bag and a mason jar, open a tank, fill up the bag and shove it down the jar then tighten the lid. But since they were taking a straight AA blast to the face WHICH CAN EASILY END YOUR LIFE IF INHALED, they never tightened the valve all the way back down. The sheriffs would show up at his house at 2-3 in the morning telling him he needed to drive 30 minutes to work to shut off a leaking tank because people in the town over "his plant is literally in the middle of nowhere surrounded by fields" 5 miles away were calling the police complaining and some even screaming that it burned to breathe, their kids couldn't breathe, people were passing the fuck out, and some kids even had to be hospitalized. Ammonia is an extremely dangerous gas to be toying with especially in combustion applications. This also gives meth heads an extra thing to start fucking with to make meth. Now you have to worry about people siphoning gas which is fuckin annoying, but imagine someone siphoning your ammonia, to attempt to produce anhydrous ammonia, to attempt to make meth with. Much more dangerous that way because multiple chances of explosions. When producing AA if not done correctly BOOM, making meth if not done correctly BOOM. There are FAR too many issues this could cause and bring up than what it would EVER be worth.
