Re: Summation of Dr Olah's interview on Methanol


"G. R. L. Cowan" <gcowan@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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AKA Gray Asphalt wrote:

"K. Jones" <K. Jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
Ok, I'll bite. Why methanol?


My understanding is that it can be produced from many sources, can be
delivered through present gasoline pumps and pipes, is relatively safe -
compared to hydrogen, produces little emmissions, and can be run in a way
(through a methanol battery) that will change co2 into something less
harmful...

Running methanol through a methanol battery produces CO2
exactly as if it had been burned.

*Almost* exactly as if. With existing methanol batteries,
much more methanol is consumed and much more CO2 produced
than if an internal methanol combustion engine had turned
an electric generator -- unless the engine and dynamo
are at a rather small scale, below a few hundred, so maybe that's
where methanol batteries can be useful, if anywhere.


--- G. R. L. Cowan, former hydrogen fan
"Boron: A Better Energy Carrier than Hydrogen?"
http://www.eagle.ca/~gcowan/Paper_for_11th_CHC.html

How is it that methanol batteries can be run in reverse to use up CO2? They
call it a neutral something or other.


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  • Re: Summation of Dr Olahs interview on Methanol
    ... delivered through present gasoline pumps and pipes, is relatively safe - ... Running methanol through a methanol battery produces CO2 ... than if an internal methanol combustion engine had turned ...
    (sci.energy.hydrogen)
  • Re: Summation of Dr Olahs interview on Methanol
    ... delivered through present gasoline pumps and pipes, is relatively safe - ... Running methanol through a methanol battery produces CO2 ... than if an internal methanol combustion engine had turned ...
    (sci.energy.hydrogen)