For the past decade, a lot of corporate carbon strategy has been built on a fragile assumption: if you capture CO2 and put it underground, incentives will make the math work. Sometimes that is true. Carbon capture and storage can be technically sound and still financially brutal. Capture costs vary widely by source and technology, and the total bill grows … Read More

This is a follow-up to the post Methanol’s Moment: How New Pathways and Energy Benchmarks Are Redefining a Critical Chemical (Part 1). Methanol has quietly become a pillar of the energy transition, moving from a behind-the-scenes chemical to a front-runner in the race for lower-carbon fuels and materials. Today, more than 100 million metric tons of methanol flow through the … Read More

Methanol is quietly powering a revolution in energy and industry. While it might not have the household name of hydrogen or ammonia, this versatile chemical is an unsung workhorse—blending into everything from clean fuels to building-block plastics. With global production topping 100 million metric tons annually, methanol’s journey from feedstock to finished product is drawing new attention from investors and … Read More

The answer to decarbonization is not to simply make more hydrogen nor is it to abandoning all fossil fuels entirely. Rather, it is better utilizing the carbon we have access to. Better and smarter utilization of carbon starts with using CO2 that is currently being emitted to atmosphere and using it as a feedstock that displaces and lowers the amount of fossil carbon introduced into the economy. Better utilizing the CO2 that the world is currently producing represents a huge step toward a circular carbon economy.