Hydrogen News, page-110

"The solution that Optimal have provided for Hanmer Springs, is to send waste methane to an Adicomp compressor which removes moisture from the gas, raises the gas pressure and then sends the gas to a C65 Capstone microturbine. The microturbine is a small gas turbine that then combusts the waste gas into electricity. This solution stops 100,000 cubic metres of methane (a greenhouse gas) from being pumped into the atmosphere, which accounts for 15% of the thermal pool’s electricity use."

https://www.optimalgroup.com.au/projects/methane-capture-from-thermal-spring-generates-power/

Well done for preventing all that methane being pumped into the atmosphere, however more can be done.

Having captured and demoisturised the methane, why not sidestep combustion and utilise the methane as feedstock for the Hazer Process. To me, this would be an easy path toward carbon negative.

If just one thermal pond produces 100,000 cubic metres of methane (per year?), what would all of the thermal ponds in New Zealand produce?

What would all of the thermal ponds on earth produce?

The companies that capture methane from any source, should be very interested in the Hazer Process.