--- OrionWorks wrote: [listing of related stories]
> http://tinyurl.com/md4ly This one is interesting, Steven: "Hydrogen is the primary feedstock material for ammonia production and ammonia is the feedstock for LSB's Chemical Business' nitrogen based chemical products, such as nitric acid and nitrogen based blasting products and fertilizers. The technology is in the early, developmental stage and has not been proven by LSB to have commercial value. " LSB and other makers of ammonia products get hydrogen now by stipping natural gas - by far the cheapest way. They are protected from the recent run-up in natural gas prices by long term contracts, which are not being offered by the gas producers any longer due to changes in the supply/demand situation. LSB discloses that the new process of water separation has not been proven economical, and it would be surprising if it were already competetive, but the fact that they licensed it at all is probably significant in itself - as no one has more incentive to seek the lowest price then the few large consumers of hydrogen who make fertilizer. It is a small indicator that AirGen may be onto something and is approaching this in a direct way which only a potentially competetive process can do, and which normal electrolysis is an order of magnitude too expensive to do, by comparison (with normal methane stripping).
