Carbon Capture to Methanol


<h1>Carbon Capture to Methanol</h1>
<h2>Storing extra summer sun for winter</h2>

It would likely be more efficient to grow seaweed in the open ocean and digest it to alcohol. But we have extra solar energy in summer before the fire seasons.

<h2>Estimate Efficiency</h2>

The ETH Zurich solar methanol project once said its 6x the price of current methanol.

<h2>General Approach</h2>

We'd use a hobby-like approach. We'd use NaOH(aq) to absorb CO2. An electric pressure washer and electrolysis will create syngas. Some copper and heat should be able to make methanol.

<h3>Materials (draft)</h3>

Stainless steel pipe should be able to handle the high pressure.

TODO: experiments for heated sections and length of pipe to cool before valves.

<h2>Contribute</h2>
This is not ideal. Make a pull request to https://github.com/harvesttentwaiter/co2-ch3oh