FYI the person I was speaking to from S.Korea said they were producing the Methanol from fermentation of algae.
Dennis Lee Miles (EVprofessor) *Founder: **EV Tech. Institute Inc.** (www.evti.org <http://www.evti.org>) * *E-Mail:* *evprofes...@evprofessor.com* <evprofes...@evprofessor.com> *Phone #* *(863) 944-9913* in Central Florida (Office hours: 12:00 Noon to 10:00 pm, New York time) On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Jan Steinman via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > 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 possible to use biological processes to make methanol, but I don't > believe it is widely done, as it would be very much more expensive than > using natgas as a feedstock. > > :::: The more the work is left to nature, the greater the net yield but > the longer the time required... Thus sometimes the most apparently > productive and high-yielding sources of energy involve a lot of activity > for little return, while long-term investments, especially in naturally > grown forests, provide the greatest value for future generations. -- David > Holmgren > :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op :::: > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140712/9fdc5e05/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
