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How one ship engine could make hydrogen at sea and sidestep storage hurdles

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Each year, international shipping moves over 80% of global trade and emits around 1 billion tons of greenhouse gases. Heavy fuel oil remains the industry's workhorse, prized for its reliability and energy density but notorious ...

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Let's power ships with ammonia! How many times have you read or heard that? Honestly. Oh, it's the fuel everyone mentions but no one actually gets going. Mainly because it burns poorly, of course. But it also has flaws: for example, it leaves unburned residue and produces nitrous oxide (a greenhouse gas 273 times more potent than CO₂). Hydrogen would help, but storing it in the open sea means carrying tanks at minus 253 degrees Celsius, at absur…

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TechXplore broke the news on Friday, May 8, 2026.
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