CaptainJJack

Toward an Economic Model for Gas-to-Liquid Fuels?

George Olah, who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has written a book on the Methanol economy. He has a number of practical ideas about our energy future.

His ultimate proposed transportation fuel is methanol that comes from getting hydrogen by cracking H2O using very high temperatures, then combing the hydrogen produced with CO2 to form methanol, CH3OH.

Olah proposes this as an alternative to hydrogen as a transportation fuel. Methanol is FAR easier to transport and store than hydrogen.

And even though the burning process releases CO2, when you consider the whole cycle, it is CO2 neutral, as long as the cracking is done in a nuclear power plant.