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Plus, if this catalysis system works, then excess electricity can power the process to convert methane into methanol as a chemical battery store. That, combine
by BizarroLand 4y ago
Plus, if this catalysis system works, then excess electricity can power the process to convert methane into methanol as a chemical battery store.
That, combined with the ability to extract CO2 from the atmosphere and convert that into Methane would result in carbon neutral (or even negative, if any of the converted CO2 carbon breaks away from the O2 in the burning process as soot) any time power delivery.
Yes, you would be burning the methanol in an engine to turn a turbine but if the carbon for that process came from the atmosphere to begin with then who would be upset by that?
- ncmncm 4y agoYou could be using the excess power to actually sequester the carbon you extracted, and help fend off looming climate catastrophe. But selling it let you pocket a few bucks, so the choice was obvious. They should tax half the carbon you extract as if it were mined, unless you sequester it instead.
- BizarroLand 4y agoBurning hydrocarbons extracted from the atmosphere is carbon neutral assuming the electricity required for the conversion is solar/wind supplied.