Methanol is a high-demand industrial chemical used to make many products people use every day as fuel for ships and ...
Current methanol production from methane requires extreme heat and pressure, making it energy-intensive and a major source of carbon dioxide emissions. Researchers used low-temperature plasma ...
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Researchers use “bottled lightning” to turn methane into liquid fuel
Inside a submerged glass tube, tiny bolts of plasma pulse through bubbling methane gas. It looks like miniature lightning, but this electrified reaction tackles a problem that has frustrated chemists ...
Back to the fun stuff: human-made lightning! What's happening at the start of this process is that electricity is being used to excite nitrogen and oxygen molecules directly from the air. This isn't ...
The findings potentially resolve a long-standing issue with methanol conversion, which has tended to be clunky, inefficient, and environmentally detrimental.
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