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cm0002@mander.xyz to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 10 hours ago

New reactor produces clean energy and carbon nanotubes from natural gas

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New reactor produces clean energy and carbon nanotubes from natural gas

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Scientists from the University of Cambridge have developed a new reactor that converts natural gas (a common energy source primarily composed of methane) into two highly valuable resources: clean hydrogen fuel and carbon nanotubes, which are ultralight and much stronger than steel.
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    While this certainly sounds like an improvement over traditional burning, there’s nothing clean about natural gas. You have to remember how it destroys our environment as it’s pulled out of the earth.

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      Extraction isn’t the problem. It’s a green house gas that’s 80x worse than CO2

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        https://www.eenews.net/articles/texas-may-allow-frackers-to-discharge-wastewater-into-rivers/

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          Ah well, fracking definitely does. It also increases the methane emissions

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    Carbon nanotubes as a pollution side effect sounds quietly horrifying.

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    Can I breathe the carbon nanotubes if I want?

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      You will breath the carbon nanotubes even if you don’t want to.

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