Methanol as a Main Fuel to Replace Gasoline Without Global Warming

John O’M. Bockris

doi:10.6000/1929-6002.2012.01.02.1

Authors

John O’M. Bockris Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 10515 S.W. 55th Place, Haile Plantation, Gainesville, Florida, 32608, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6000/1929-6002.2012.01.02.1

Keywords:

Tar sands, CO2 from the atmosphere, copper zinc catalyst, no warming

Abstract

The world temperature will increase by approximately 8^OC by 2100. This would bring the temperature in parts of the Middle East to values causing heat stroke and death. Methanol made from pure H₂ and CO₂ removed from the atmosphere would cause no global warming and could be made from inexhaustible compounds on the surface of the earth. Cheaper ways of making this fuel may be available.

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