[GTALUG] mysterious restarts

James Knott james.knott at rogers.com
Sat Jun 18 16:51:00 EDT 2016


On 06/18/2016 02:41 PM, Loui Chang via talk wrote:
> On Thu 16 Jun 2016 23:36 -0400, Bob Jonkman via talk wrote:
>> Methanol can be produced directly from carbon dioxide. But the best part was
>> that since methanol is a liquid, all our current gasoline distribution and
>> storage can be used without a fundamental change in infrastructure. Don't know
>> why this hasn't taken off...
> There's little incentive to replace gasoline as a liquid fuel source since
> there's still enough supply and it works more or less.
>
>

Pollution.  Methanol burns much cleaner than gasoline or diesel.  Also,
fossil fuels add more CO2 to the atmosphere.  Methanol & ethanol can be
made from renewable resources that consume CO2 from the atmosphere, so
you have essentially a closed CO2 cycle.



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