Engineering360: "New catalyst can make natural gas burn cleaner"

I can see that pollutants produced may be reduced, but why would I want the methane to burn at a lower temperature - this doesn't explain whether the heat produced from a given mass of methane is more or less than when burning it at a higher temperature - it merely sweeps it into the "more efficient" bag.

Lost my attention at the second line with CO2 being a destructive greenhouse gas, tell that to the plants which would die if all the CO2 were removed.

More flummery garnered to pander to the "renewables" money pot!

I wonder if it will be automatically added to the methane which makes me wonder what will be the effects on the already lower calorific value when it is used to replace acetylene in heating and cutting especially in power station maintenance.

The catalyst would be part of the burner, not an additive to the fuel. With its scarce metal components and exotic manufacturing process, it will be far too expensive to use as a consumable.

What is gained by modifying the combustion to get poisonous carbon monoxide instead of carbon dioxide? It still has to be completely burned to carbon dioxide to render it non-toxic.

The only benefit I see in reducing combustion temperature is the prevention of nitrogen oxide compounds formation; those are a health hazard in homes with gas cooking appliances, and they acidify rain outdoors.

I doubt very much that this will see much application in processes requiring high temperatures. Anybody who wants to mandate using this across the board in the name of saving the planet is too impractical to be worth heeding.