Here's a long view, a very long view, on the way hydrocarbon processing for energy and transport may develop over the next 50 years, starting quite possibly with a billion dollars of investment here i..
Here's a long view, a very long view, on the way hydrocarbon processing for energy and transport may develop over the next 50 years, starting quite possibly with a billion dollars of investment here in Europe by the time this column is printed. It'll mean gasification as a key technology, coal as a likely refinery feedstock, hydrogen and power as principal products, and carbon dioxide separation and storage as an immediate technological challenge.
The long view comes from Thom Hartmann's thought-provoking book, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight (Cygnus Books). For 70 million years, the second law of thermodynamics worked away to make our industry possible. Hydrogen on our sun, the sou
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