zigzag3143 Contributor, Sysnative Staff Emeritus Joined Mar 27, 2012 Posts 3,741 Jun 14, 2012 #1 Methanol isn't new as a fuel – late in the 20th century it gained some traction, especially as a blend-in in gasoline, but it's faded since then as a [COLOR=#346200 !important][FONT=inherit !important][COLOR=#346200 !important][FONT=inherit !important]transportation[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] option. It burns cleaner than gasoline, but the process to make it has an environmental impact. Now a team of German researchers is looking to pump new life into methanol as transportation alt-fuel by packaging it as a way to use carbon dioxide. Doing so, they say, could reduce the CO2 emissions by 50 percent. Click to expand... http://www.tgdaily.com/sustainability-features/64047-co2-envisioned-as-source-of-green-fuel
Methanol isn't new as a fuel – late in the 20th century it gained some traction, especially as a blend-in in gasoline, but it's faded since then as a [COLOR=#346200 !important][FONT=inherit !important][COLOR=#346200 !important][FONT=inherit !important]transportation[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] option. It burns cleaner than gasoline, but the process to make it has an environmental impact. Now a team of German researchers is looking to pump new life into methanol as transportation alt-fuel by packaging it as a way to use carbon dioxide. Doing so, they say, could reduce the CO2 emissions by 50 percent. Click to expand... http://www.tgdaily.com/sustainability-features/64047-co2-envisioned-as-source-of-green-fuel