{"id":227712,"date":"2025-12-23T21:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/new-reactor-produces-clean-energy-and-carbon-nanotubes-from-natural-gas"},"modified":"2025-12-23T21:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:05:19","slug":"new-reactor-produces-clean-energy-and-carbon-nanotubes-from-natural-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/new-reactor-produces-clean-energy-and-carbon-nanotubes-from-natural-gas","title":{"rendered":"New reactor produces clean energy and carbon nanotubes from natural gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-reactor-produces-clean-energy-and-carbon-nanotubes-from-natural-gas.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Hydrogen is a promising green fuel because it burns completely, producing only water vapor and zero carbon dioxide. However, the way we make hydrogen today typically involves using high-pressure steam to break apart gas molecules, which releases significant amounts of CO<sub>2<\/sub> as a byproduct.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid this, the Cambridge team wanted to perfect a technique called <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-08-technology-recycle-greenhouse-gas-energy.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">methane pyrolysis<\/a>, which converts methane into hydrogen and solid carbon without producing carbon dioxide. However, until now, no one has been able to perform this process efficiently enough for large-scale use because traditional reactors waste too much gas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Hydrogen is a promising green fuel because it burns completely, producing only water [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}