03-07-2023, 05:47 AM
(03-07-2023, 05:40 AM)Mav date Wrote:What I want to know is why the big emitters of methane don’t capture it and convert it through catalysis into commercially saleable products? Isn’t that a licence to print money?If they could get a license, but the political will is not there, lobbyists are too powerful, the engineering and science doesn't really matter.
Recently, I noted councils around Australia have taken to banning Bluescope / BHP from using ethanol to power the steel and pickling mills. The BHP plan was that the factories would use the gas that is normally flared off to generate electricity that they needed for furnaces and operations. But that takes BHP/Bluescope off the grid as a user of renewable energy, a big earner for the energy sector, so the councils said no.
Yet the same councils issued new licenses for ethanol to be flared off, probably after it has been collected and compressed using SolarPV sourced energy! :
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"