New Method Converts Greenhouse Gas Into Fuel

Scitech Daily ^ | OCTOBER 1, 2022 | By SÃO PAULO RESEARCH FOUNDATION

[ClearCase_guy]

We should burn CO_2.

[Carl Vehse]

"The new method converts methane gas into liquid methanol"

Wait! What?!?

Methane is a fuel!! What they are doing is converting one type of gaseous fuel into another type of liquid fuel.

[NorthMountain]

1) Methane is a fuel.

2) its conversion into methanol produces less carbon dioxide (CO2) than other liquid fuels in the same category. So? Anthropogenic 'climate change' is a fraud. Quit lying.

[z3n]

Yeah, I don’t get it. What makes methanol better. Methane is the primary fuel for natural gas. In fact, if you have pure CH4 doesn’t it burn even cleaner?

[citizen]

Can this be done at scale and economically?

[Red Badger]

It appears so..................

[Nervous Tick]

Shhh... let’s get behind this... just add step 3) : get leftists to drink it.

[Does so]

Keep “Greenland” in mind.

[NorthMountain]

If the heavier components (ethane, propane, butane) are present in any significant quantity, they are fractioned out of the natural gas before it is delivered to the customer. They’re valuable!

“Natural gas” as delivered to the customer is nearly pure methane. The characteristic smell is a mercaptan added to make the odorless hydrocarbon detectable by humans.

[hflynn]

Natural gas is predominately methane an accounts for 30% of the energy used in the United States.

When will this research center announce electric light bulbs to replace whale oil lanterns?

[jimfr]

their partially “burning” the methane to get methanol, thereby wasting some of the energy in the methane. I don’t know how they are performing their calculations to be able to say it results in less CO2.

[aquila48]

“The conversion occurred at room temperature and pressure, which could allow methane, a potent greenhouse gas, to be utilized to make fuel.”

Isn’t methane fuel to start with? AKA natural gas?

[packagingguy]

Didn’t Los Alamos National Laboratories do this years ago? Or maybe it was Oak Ridge.

[Tell It Right]

"Yeah, I don’t get it. What makes methanol better. Methane is the primary fuel for natural gas. In fact, if you have pure CH4 doesn’t it burn even cleaner?"

You're thinking in terms of physical science, not political science. Now that "researches" have "found" a "use" for methane it triggers Fuhrer Brandon to permit us to drill and process natural gas. He no longer has to forbid us from doing so.

See how much better political science is than physical science?

[Tommy Revolts]

We’re going to need more cows now. Woot woot!

[Carl Vehse]

When burned completely, both methane and methanol produce carbon dioxide and water:

CH₄ + 2 O₂ --> CO₂ + 2 H₂O

CH₃OH + 3/2 O₂ --> CO₂ + 2 H₂O

[caprock]

Yep!

[DevonD]

Methanol is liquid so easier to store and higher density so less volume. Makes it a good fuel for transportation. Methanol has some serious draw backs such as corrosion.

[Paal Gulli]

Big hairy deal. Lead can be turned into gold and peanut butter can be turned into diamonds.

The salient question is, how much does it cost?