Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy George A. Olah, Alain Goeppert, G. K. Surya Prakash
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated

Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2008. USC College scholars George Olah and Surya Prakash share a passion for the power and possibilities of the methanol economy. [7] Cf., e.g., http://www.itm-power.com/press/1.pdf ; http://www.itm-power.com . History of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Romm, The Hype about Hydrogen (Island Press, Washington, DC 2004). 5) Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy, Dr. Our first Natural gas supplies almost the same amount of energy to our economy as oil; if natural gas was converted to transportation fuel, our supply of transportation fuel would double. The world is currently consuming about 85 million barrels of oil a day, and about two-thirds as much natural gas equivalent, both derived from non-renewable natural sources. Thursday, 28 March 2013 at 12:20. [5] G Olah, S Prakash, A Goeppert. Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy book download. 200 nuclear plants and 200 natural gas to methanol plants at a capital cost of about $400 billion can increase the supply of US transportation fuel on an energy equivalent basis by 40%. Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy. Their George Olah Plant — named after the Nobel Prize-winning chemist and author of “Beyond Gas and Oil: The Methanol Economy” — started production of bio-methanol at the end of last year.