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. --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk