A renewable power system that is reliable whatever the weather? 🌬️ ⛅️ The case for e-methanol with carbon cycling ♻️: liquid storage that can be built anywhere 🚨 New impulse paper 🚨 in Joule with @euronion42.bsky.socialdoi.org/10.1016/j.jo...nworbmot.org/energy/brown...

Interesting. How do things change when not using Allam cycle? I do expect quite some imports of e-methanol; this would require either also shipping the pure oxygen (expensive) or creating it onsite (efficiency loss).

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For a very fine overview check out @pfairley.bsky.socialspectrum.ieee.org/methanol-ene...

Backing Up the Power Grid with Green Methanol

A closed-loop storage-plus-power system stockpiles renewable energy wherever it's needed