A bacteria that converts methane into methanol at room temperature? Wow!?

Question

http://www.snugroups.org/applications/making_methanol.html

Where can I get the name of that little bugger? I've searched and searched but to no avail.

Methane is about 21 times as destructive as CO2 as a greenhouse gas. Yet it's an excellent fuel. Natural gas is usually either methane-based or propane-based. When burned, it exhausts carbon - but if produced from living matter, it can only exhaust as much as it just took in from the atmosphere.

Everything from switchgrass to livestock manure to grease can be easily converted to methane by anaerobic digestion. But can't be transported easily. Conversion to liquid form would solve a host of problems and the methanol could fairly easily be converted to serve as a drop-in replacement for gasoline.

So, where the heck do I find this bacteria?!

Answer 1

Check out this PDF file. I believe it will give you the answers you are looking for.

(The one listed as my source.)

OOhh,,

By the way, Methane really doesn't need to be converteded to become a viable fuel alternitive. We already have the technology.

It simply......  Then becomes a matter of convenience, Vs. Politics

Hope this helps.

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