Methanol economy advantages compared to a hydrogen economy: 1  Efficient energy storage by volume, as compared with compressed hydrogen. 2  A liquid hydrogen infrastructure would be prohibitively expensive. 3  Can be blended with gasoline (for example in M85, a mixture containing 85% methanol and 15% gasoline). 4  User friendly.
Two things contribute to air pollution that can cause an air quality alert: 1  Ground-Level Ozone â High-levels of ground-level ozone are frequently the cause of air quality alerts. 2  Particulate Matter â Particulate matter consists of pollutants such as dust, soot, ash and wood smoke.
Ground-level ozone, commonly known as âsmog,â is the major summertime cause of poor air quality in the Bay Area. The Spare the Air Every Day program was created to reduce summertime ozone pollution. Ozone is essentially an unstable molecule made up of three oxygen atoms. It is created in the lower atmosphere by a combination of pollutants called reactive organic compounds and oxides of nitrogen that get âcookedâ by the sunâs ultraviolet rays in a photochemical reaction.