Young Suk Jo cofounded Amogy to decarbonize the transportation sector by engineering ways for trucks and ships to run on a common fertilizer ingredient.
Young Suk Jo, 34, came up with a possible solution in an unlikely chemical: ammonia. Amogy, a startup Jo cofounded in 2020, is building systems that can use ammonia, typically a component of fertilizer, as a fuel to power trucks and ships. One of ammonia's most attractive attributes is its energy density, meaning it can pack a lot of energy into a relatively small space. Liquid ammonia can carry about three times more energy than compressed hydrogen, a leading clean fuel today. For Amogy, the key to using ammonia…