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>still waiting for one that will get traction. There is one, got traction since millions of years..it's called trees: https://www.britannica.com/science/metha

• greenyoda 4y ago
  Also, this Wikipedia article specifically discusses the use of methanol as a fuel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_fuel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_fuel
  • Archelaos 4y ago
    Or wood gas. At the end of WW2 there were about 500,000 vehicles with wood gas generators in use in Germany to make up for the lack of other fuels.[1] But under today's conditions, this possibility does not seem to make economic sense. [1] See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas
    • nix23 4y ago
      Nora-Korea has still wood gas generators attached to cars:
• gumby 4y ago
  Unfortunately it consumes a tree, which takes a while to replace. Better to be able to build a facility that can produce what you need on a continuous basis. Interestingly I had to reword my comment (plant->facility and evergreen-> continuous) to avoid looking like I was trying to pun. Natural metaphors are a deep part of our thinking about the world.
  • nix23 4y ago
    >Better to be able to build a facility that can produce what you need on a continuous basis. Yeah see that's the wrong thinking of us humans. The best systems are those established by nature. Remove and bind CO2...yes trees and algae and shellfish have some million years of training in that. Lets see this at scale..you need so many solar-panels that you already wasted mw's of energy, just to waste that energy for a process nature is already much better. It just to make stocks and money...not to safe the climate, well maybe it's meant to make vodka in space-stations, then i am ok with it.
  • pstuart 4y ago
    Bamboo seems like an intriguing alternative to trees.