Researchers at two large Japanese companies have begun tests of a promising new fuel source that could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Japanese machinery maker IHI and electricity producer JERA have begun experiments at a thermal power plant in central Japan that mixes ammonia with coal.
Ammonia does not emit carbon dioxide. The researchers hope that the mixture will be easily adopted at existing stations.
IHI is also testing ammonia-only power generation at a plant in Yokohama, near Tokyo.
Eneos Holdings is also developing synthetic crude oil or synthetic fuels in Japan by manufacturing carbon dioxide and hydrogen. The Japanese government aims to use it commercially in the 1940s.