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Originally Posted by johndallman
You get about 3kg of ammonia per tonne of coal, varying a bit with the coal you used (2.75 to 3.25). There were plenty of efforts to improve the yield, but they never got anywhere before the Haber-Bosch process took over.
You need calcium hydroxide, ammonium sulphate and sulphuric acid to extract the ammonia, which comes out as more ammonium sulphate.
We already have calcium hydroxide and sulphuric acid, but they'll need a starting charge of ammonium sulphate, which will have been brought over as a dry bulk chemical. Bring tons of the stuff.
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Fair enough.
I assume this will mean a healthy supply of ammonia per capita,
everything being powered by coal.
I assume that 19th century steam engines gave way to steam turbines generating electricity at some point and gas combustion turbines may have supplemented these, if that's practical (maybe cleaner, for more prestigious urban areas of
Germania Hyperborea).
Care to guess at approximate years after settlement the ASNs have proper electrical power plants of each type, rather than merely powering mechanical steam engines with their coal?