China’s carbon neutral efforts to get boost from new ways to produce methanol, hydrogen

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New ways to produce methanol, hydrogen to help China’s zero carbon goal

An institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences is leading initiatives to turn solar power into methanol and produce hydrogen from methanol.

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• The Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics is leading projects to turn solar power into methanol and produce hydrogen from methanol
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• China, the world’s largest investor in renewable energy, has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2060

China’s efforts to become carbon neutral by 2060are expected to receive a boost from a pair of scientific research projects involving methanol, an alternative biofuel for internal combustion and other engines.

The Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is leading the two initiatives, which consist of a project that turns solar power into methanol and another that produces hydrogen from methanol.

The projects can “fundamentally improve the ecological environment” in China, while helping develop renewable resources to address the nation’s energy security issues”, the DICP said in a statement on Thursday.

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Sounds reasonable. Sunlight, feedstock, catalyst, product(s). Not familiar with thedetails yet.