Ann: New Route to Hydrogen and Graphene-Based Battery Materials F, page-32

Yeah I find this part interesting. There's obviously a negative aura around fossil fuels, because generally we take carbon out of the ground from millions of years ago and burn it, spewing it into the environment. This is the damaging part of the process.

Converting it instead into hydrogen and Graphene, is there any pollution from this process? It seems more environmentally friendly. You still have the whole mining process happening which is still reaping the planet, but we do that with our graphite anyway. I guess the other problem is oil spoils, which happen and is definitely not a green event.

And if it's natural gas (I'm assuming this is using petroleum), I think that would actually be less green due to the extraction process, but my knowledge in that area is poor.