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I wonder how efficient the conversion in the article would be, after being adapted to real world "dirty" methane instead of pure.
by sfink 4y ago
I wonder how efficient the conversion in the article would be, after being adapted to real world "dirty" methane instead of pure.
- anonporridge 4y agoThat is something I mentioned in another comment below. It's still an open question whether conversion to methanol, transportation, and sale will be cheap enough to actually generate a profit. It the real world, it might simply cost too much or be too dirty of a conversion that the numbers don't add up. In this case, then we will still be better off just burning it efficiently on site.
- jdadj 4y ago“Burning it efficiently on site” might not be as easy as previously thought. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/climate/gas-flaring-climate-methane.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/climate/gas-flaring-clima...
- Schroedingersat 4y agoSynthetic methane has very controllable levels of contaminants. If this can use an abundant catalyst or small enough amounts of rare elements it's a good steptowards powering a lot of existing infrastructure with sunlight.