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I mean dimethyl ether: DME. Unfortunately, I really doubt we are nearing a collapse in demand for oil. This technology seeks to convert the transportation indus

I mean dimethyl ether: DME. Unfortunately, I really doubt we are nearing a collapse in demand for oil. This technology seeks to convert the transportation industry to safe, cheap, and green hydrogen power, but bitumen derived products are used as an industrial feedstock for countless products that make modern society. This technology can reduce the CO2 emissions of extracting and distributing bitumen by 85% - >100%, while reducing the capital costs by 65% - 85%. It allows transitional oil to be produced cheaply, relatively cleanly, and in countries that don't violate human rights or fund terrorists.

ncmncm 4y ago
Both are called DME. Only one is described on its WP page as principally a solvent. So, you probably should be more specific when describing your process, to avoid misapprehensions. When we have no need or desire to oxidize mined hydrocarbons for heat, our remaining demand for mined hydrocarbons (e.g. to make into plastic) will surely be less than today. Then, the most easily obtained natural hydrocarbons will be the ones we mine, because we are not wasting them by oxidizing them to CO2, water, and heat. Unless there is no bitumen dissolved in that readily obtained oil? It is just possible that hydrocarbons made from gathered and cracked CO2 will end up cheaper than fractions of extracted oil. But I have doubts.