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Northwestern turns methane into methanol using "bottled lightning"

A small glass tube, a copper coating, and a burst of plasma no hotter than room temperature. That is the setup behind a new ...
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Clean Energy Breakthrough: Bottled Lightning Produces Methanol in New “Bubble Reactor”

Lightning in a bottle, in a literal sense, may be the key to new, clean energy by reducing carbon emissions in methanol ...
Hydrocarbon Processing

Bottled lightning makes a cleaner fuel: Research shows how bursts of plasma convert methane into methanol without high heat and pressures

Enhancing with argon. To further enhance the process, the team diluted methane with argon, which is typically an inert noble ...

Scientists Are Using Lightning in a Bottle to Turn Methane Into Methanol

The findings potentially resolve a long-standing issue with methanol conversion, which has tended to be clunky, inefficient, ...