Even more evil..................
Not only that. Making methanol is made by the same process we make today, steam reforming natural gas.
So we steam reform natural gas to make methanol, to send through this process to make hydrogen.
Or we could just steam reform natural gas to make hydrogen in the first place.
However, as a fuel, hydrogen is really only useful in systems that are mass dependent like a rocket. It is really a lousy fuel.
Just use the natural gas in the first place.