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.
