By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
Sometimes I think we have all gone through the looking glass with Alice!
The Telegraph are reporting “that Shell is exploring making natural gas from hydrogen to ship to countries around the world amid fears that surging demand in China will leave Europe short of supplies.
The process, outlined by Shell in its LNG Outlook, would see hydrogen, made using solar power, combined with carbon molecules captured from greenhouse gases in the air.
Carbon molecules would then be used to turn the hydrogen into methane or CH4, which is the same molecule as natural gas. The methane could then be frozen into synthetic LNG.
The proposals mark the first time a major oil company has explored turning hydrogen into LNG.”
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There could be a very good reason why no other major has looked at it, which is that you only get back about a third of the energy you input, when making SNG. You have further losses liquifying it.
Would it not be more sensible for Shell to do what BP are, and start drilling for oil and gas again?
Then there would not be a shortage!