Santa Fe Institute

GSSS 2009: Earth, Environment Energy: Fossil Fuels

by Carlo Rubbia
July 20, 2009
An inevitable, continued use of fossils, but mitigating the global warming of the atmosphere. In particular I will describe (i) conversion of Natural Gas (NG) to Hydrogen with no CO2 emissions and (ii) Methanol, Ethanol or dimethyl-ether as liquid substitutes to gas in all distant transport applications, starting from NG conversion into Hydrogen and from concentrated CO2 waste, already “paid for” by the savings due to the CO2 conversion of the previous application (2 for 1).
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