Mar 17 2012: Batteries are still expensive and the whole reason that NI3 is cheap is because you only pay for ammonia in it's preparation the iodine is recycled so you don't have to go paying for it, ammonia is extremely cheap it's a fertilizer meaning that you spray it on acres of land every day, the reason it's cost effective is that it IS and explosion, most of the energy is given to the molecules is used to transform heavy iodine molecules into projectiles with a certain direction which is not the case in combustion. Combustion is the least efficient way to get energy it's like a tungsten light bulb compared to neon bulb, most of your energy is lost in useless collisions between molecules the only energy you get is from the surface molecules that hit your container.
Mar 17 2012: the idea is that it is completely renewable, it has no carbon emissions, it gives more energy than your everyday fuel, and it's cheaper, there is nothing that brings all these four to the table along with being abundant and not out of a science fiction movie.
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