rastinza @rastinza@social.cleverlibre.org

Maersk wishes to build a methanol production plant in Galicia, the production will be used to fuel some of their methanol powered vessels.
I didn't find the full plan, but it should already be active by 2025.
They wish to produce a huge amount of methanol: 2 milion tonnes.
The production method is however very strange: they wish to synthesize green hydrogen and then use that to produce methanol by the reduction of carbon dioxide, this is the standard production method, but it generally works out because hydrogen produced from carbon is quite cheap, on the other hand green hydrogen is quite more expensive.
Wouldn't it be better to produce methanol through biosynthesis?
Sure, you'd need a lot of feedstock but at least you wouldn't need to install several Eolic parks all over the place to generate the required electricity.
Moreover, in A Coruña a plant producing biomethanol through this technology already exists, and they produce a lot: almost 200 million liters per year, and that plant also PRODUCES electricity.
The main problem is that they use a first generation feedstock, which is quite despicable and that probably the methanol produced is not pure enough to be used in those ships.

Wouldn't it be better to expand the current production plant, maybe by innovating the process to use less important feedstocks and if required open a methanol refinery rather than: placing down a bunch of Eolic parks, build a plant to produce hydrogen and build another plant to produce methanol?
I don't know, surely they did their calculations, but without having a written plan one cannot do anything but wonder.

#galicia #industry #hydrogen #methanol

Alright, it was quite cool in the end.
I must congratulate with the presenters which are actually really good at managing the anxiety of people!

Today I'm interviewed by the television, they sent me the questions and it's quite embarrassing stuff.
How would you reply to someone asking: do you know that thousands of people are placing their hope in the good results of your work?
I'm not sure what to say... I guess it'll be something along the lines of everyone in their work tries to improve the life of other people, and I'm doing nothing more than anyone else who loves their job. I hope I'll one day be able to realise the hopes of all these people.

Me voy a Madrid por un premio este lunes.
Me hice un bocadillo con jamón al horno del otro día por el viaje y tengo una cerveza; espero que no vaya a ser un problema por Renfe.
Me quedo el fin de semana en un hostal, que se hace guay en Madrid? Tengo que volver al Prado porqué no acabé de ver la exposición fija la última vez, pero después no tengo planes.

Este premio va a ser presentado por dos periodistas de la televisión, me parece un poco raro!

They want to build a green hydrogen plant in Vigo, they forecast the annual production to be around 200 tonnes, enough to fuel 40 trucks.
Yes, hydrogen as a fuel for cars is surely the best idea...

Estoy aprendiendo el español y este chatgpt es muy mejor del diccionario de la real academia de español en explicar el significado de las palabras.

The abstract of an article I'm coauthor of just came out, so cool!
I guess I should at least read the paper now...