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It has been scaled up. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction The first commercial synthetic gas p
by aaronblohowiak 6y ago
It has been scaled up. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction
The first commercial synthetic gas plant opened in 1984 and is the Great Plains Synfuel plant in Beulah, North Dakota.[9] It is still operational and produces 1500 MW worth of SNG using coal as the carbon source. In the years since its opening, other commercial facilities have been opened using other carbon sources such as wood chips.
- __MatrixMan__ 6y agoGlad to know it's more popular than I thought. Seems like a good thing to put near a windmill (or a fusion plant if we ever get there) so we can use existing infrastructure and switch from pumping billion-year-old carbon into to atmosphere to just pumping last-decade carbon into the atmosphere. The wood chips thing is interesting. In the last five weeks I've filled as many trash totes with leaves from the neighbor's tree. I wonder how that mass of carbon compares with the gas I've burned for heat this winter.