https://www.newpower.info/2021/03/interview-beverley-gower-jones-managing-partner-clean-growth-fund/ Expert information for all those invested in the UK's energy future Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:08:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 https://www.newpower.info/2021/03/interview-beverley-gower-jones-managing-partner-clean-growth-fund/#comment-89240 Phil Sheppard Fri, 27 Aug 2021 08:53:00 +0000 http://www.newpower.info/?p=9773#comment-89240 Beverley says the use case for CCUS is “carbon storage or turning it into aggregates or minerals”. The major use case in my view is fuel. Direct air capture of CO2 and conversion into methanol for powering vehicles using direct methanol fuel cells would provide a closed anthropogenic carbon cycle with only water as the other emission. Carrying hydrogen within a liquid molecule rather than forcing it on its own into extremely high pressures is a more sensible and biomimicking way to carry energy. Chemical storage of energy in fuels provides the highest energy density storage. The volumetric energy density of methanol is over 3x more than H2 at 700 bar. Although there are cost challenges, with enough backing and scale these can be overcome.

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