🏭 Terraform Industries converts electricity and air into synthetic natural gas for the first time

🏭 Terraform Industries converts electricity and air into synthetic natural gas for the first time

The company's process involves cost reductions, with the conversion of clean electricity to hydrogen for less than $2.50 per kilogram and CO2 capture for less than $250 per ton.

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  • For the first time, Terraform Industries has produced synthetic natural gas by converting electricity and air using its Terraformer technology.
  • The company's process involves cost reductions, with the conversion of clean electricity to hydrogen for less than $2.50 per kilogram and CO2 capture for less than $250 per ton.
  • Terraform plans to further reduce prices to achieve cost parity with traditionally extracted liquefied natural gas, which requires mass production of Terraformers and the expansion of solar power.

In today's world, we rely on an extensive network for the extraction, processing, transportation, and final consumption of hydrocarbons such as crude oil and natural gas. These resources are not only finite and difficult to extract but also lead to the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Terraform Industries offers a solution to this problem through its Terraformer technology, which for the first time has been used to produce synthetic natural gas from electricity and air, reports TechCrunch.

Low costs

A Terraformer is about the size of two shipping containers and consists of three subsystems: an electrolyzer that converts solar energy into hydrogen, a direct air capture system that captures CO2, and a chemical reactor that uses these inputs to produce pipeline-quality synthetic natural gas.

The facility is optimized for one megawatt of solar power.

Terraform Industries has not only succeeded in producing synthetic natural gas but has also kept costs down. It converts clean electricity into hydrogen for less than $2.50 per kilogram. The price for green hydrogen is between $5 and $11 per kilo. Their CO2 capture does it for less than $250 per ton, which the company claims is a world record.

The goal is to further lower costs so that their synthetic natural gas reaches cost parity with conventionally extracted liquefied natural gas. Achieving this requires large-scale production of Terraformers and the expansion of solar power.

Read more at Terraform Industries.

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