Sounds something like this company I've been following for a while...
http://www.sapphireenergy.com
... based in the US. Their process uses algae to make 'crude oil' which can
then be refined in the normal way to make diesel, petrol etc. They have just
announced a tie-up with the big Chinese
Robert Bruninga bruni...@usna.edu wrote:
But, our friends in South Korea use Methanol and not Natural gas as the
feedstock for the hydrogen.
Methanol is typically synthesized via steam reformation of natgas. So hydrogen
from methanol is just an intermediate step from natgas.
It is
FYI the person I was speaking to from S.Korea said they were producing the
Methanol from fermentation of algae.
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Given the previous lambast of Hydrogen powered Fuel Cell cars…
If hydrogen from natural gas is twice as bad as burning NG directly, and
given that NG is half the carbon as Coal, then it would seem that a
hydrogen powered FEV is the same as burning coal directly. It would make a
nice summary
But, our friends in South Korea use Methanol and not Natural gas as the
feedstock for the hydrogen. Some other arguments against Fool Cells are 50%
extra losses in processing the hydrogen, $ price of the Fool Cells is about
the same as the remainder of the car, raising the car cost by 100%. If
