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NNadir

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3. The use of methanol before we have clean primary energy is premature.

Reply to Warpy (Reply #2)

Sun Sep 24, 2023, 05:33 PM

Sep 2023

Methanol is probably mostly manufactured by the partial oxidation of methane and, where the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide is practiced, the hydrogen is almost certainly made from the reformation of dangerous fossil fuels.

Over in the Ennui and Excuses forum energy storage is more popular than clean primary energy, and I translate that into a de facto endorsement of fossil fuels.

In fact, fossil fuel sales people and sales bots have free reign there.

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A Nice Chemical Engineering Paper on the Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol. [View all] NNadir Sep 2023 OP

The things I read on a Sunday morning BlueIn_W_Pa Sep 2023 #1

Good news if and when it can be scaled up Warpy Sep 2023 #2

The use of methanol before we have clean primary energy is premature. NNadir Sep 2023 #3

Um, wait -- did you copy/paste all the right equations? eppur_se_muova Sep 2023 #4

From a purely mechanistic standpoint the third equation should be specified. NNadir Sep 2023 #5