Methanol is currently produced by breaking down natural gas at high temperatures into hydrogen gas and carbon monoxide. This process is expensive and takes a lot of energy. Theses processes are known as 'steam reforming' and 'methanol synthesis' and are very bad for the environment. But researchers at Cardiff Catalysis Institute have discovered they can produce methanol from methane through simple chemical reaction that allows methanol to produce at low temperatures using oxygen and hydrogen peroxide.They found that this new method is cleaner and less expensive than the old
