NuScale reactors could be mass produced and placed on floating barges that could be deployed to remote territorial waters in the ocean to produce methanol from seawater. Methanol can replace natural gas in natural gas electric power plants cheaply retrofitted to use methanol. The flu gas from these power plants could be captured allowing CO2 to be recycled to produce more methanol when synthesized with hydrogen produced at sea. So this process would be more than carbon neutral, it would be carbon negative-- reducing the CO2 in the atmosphere.
NuScale reactors could be mass produced and placed on floating barges that could be deployed to remote territorial waters in the ocean to produce methanol from seawater. Methanol can replace natural gas in natural gas electric power plants cheaply retrofitted to use methanol. The flu gas from these power plants could be captured allowing CO2 to be recycled to produce more methanol when synthesized with hydrogen produced at sea. So this process would be more than carbon neutral, it would be carbon negative-- reducing the CO2 in the atmosphere.
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