“If you want to beat carbon, it’s the only way to do it unless you change the chemical charts.” So says Jack Robertson about the prospects for making ammonia the world’s go-to liquid fuel and renewable energy storage medium. Robertson is chairman and CEO of Light Water Inc., an ammonia energy storage startup. The carbon he mentions refers, of course, to the major carbon-based fuels of oil, natural gas and coal that provide more than 80 percent of the world’s energy. The charts he mentions refers to the periodic table of elements , a listing of the basic elements of the universe which are about as likely to change their properties as the proverbial leopard is to change his […]