Conversion of combustible municipal solid waste to methyl alcohol: an environmentally friendly technology

The chronology of various economies based on differing energy‐carriers is examined within a historic perspective and from an environmental point of view. The ‘Methanol Economy’ may well prove to be a permanent, yet ever‐increasing, under‐current of these other economies, each of which plays a temporary role on the Stage of Human History. Although current methods of methanol (MeOH) production are not as profitable as those of fossil‐ and …