hanno on Nostr: I no longer think E-Methanol is a good idea ⚡⚗️ I am not saying this lightly. ...
I no longer think E-Methanol is a good idea ⚡⚗️
I am not saying this lightly. But it's hard to argue with thermodynamics, and making energy-rich molecules from nothing but CO₂, water🌊, + electricity⚡ faces some hard truths.
Recently, a significant project developers for E-Methanol⚡⚗️, Liquid Wind💧💨, filed for bankruptcy.
E-Methanol⚡⚗️ & other CCU/E-Fuels/PtX/PtL processes all have one problem: they need so much clean electricity that it's questionable if this is plausible.
https://industrydecarbonization.com/news/should-we-give-up-on-e-methanol-and-co2-utilization.html🧵
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