Scientists suggest that supplying green ammonia at ten regional ports or 100 global ports could meet over 60 percent of the world’s shipping fuel needs.— the fundamental building blocks of nucleic acids — in living organisms. In the environment, ammonia is produced in theApart from its role in the ecosystem, ammonia is widely utilized as a fertilizer for enriching soil quality and stimulating plant growth through its concentrated nitrogen content.
“Other alternatives, e.g. bio-fuels, green methanol, hydrogen, blue fuels, etc., either have limited future availability, higher costs or generate CO2 emissions when used,” Bañares-Alcántara said. “This is still a small number of ports that would have to be converted to green ammonia given that we are considering 1,360 ports globally,” the scientist said. “The estimation comes from an optimization where ports are ranked in terms of their fuel consumption and the largest fuel consumption ports are converted in ranking order. The effect is incremental.”