(Invited) Long-Term Sustainability through Carbon Dioxide Capture and Conversion: The Methanol Economy

Renewable methanol synthesized from carbon dioxide capture and conversion using water and renewable energies such as solar, wind, geothermal, atomic, etc., is a simple solution in the long run to a complex climate change carbon conundrum. Liquid methanol is a versatile high octane, clean burning automotive and marine fuel (to replace gasoline and diesel), a fuel for direct oxidation methanol fuel cell, chemical feedstock to make ethylene, propylene and myriad of other chemicals and a convenient hydrogen storage medium that can replace fossil fuels in almost all applications without inflicting major changes to the existing infrastructure. For a one carbon global C O 2 problem, renewable C H 3 OH is a one carbon globalsolution.