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Methane pyrolysis turns a grey resource into a green one

Oil refieneries are the primary producers of hydrogen now. They emit major quantities of carbon dioxide in the process. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Bio is in. Chemistry is out. Green is in. Grey is out. And the Netherlands (my home country) should rid itself from its dependence on natural gas. These are popular opinions in ‘climate conscious’ circles. Yet there are ‘chemical’ processes that yield ‘green’ fuels. Methane pyrolysis is one of them. Almost all fuels emit CO2

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on: 28 May 2020

Climate discussion lacks sense of urgency

One of the first pictures of the Earth from space, taken by the crew of Apollo 8.

The urgency of effective political action on the energy transition lies close to my heart. We should reduce the use of fossil fuels at the shortest notice possible. I feel that politicians, the media and the general public are almost totally unaware of this urgency. How did I come to this view? Why do I

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on: 7 March 2019