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Swiss company outlines methanol-to-gasoline option for Alaska North Slope gas to state legislature

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Under van Wijk’s concept, a plant would produce methanol from natural gas on the North Slope using the proposed GigaMethanol technology. In January, ICIS reported that Eastman Chemical reached an agreement to sell a mothballed Texas methanol and ammonia plant to Pandora Methanol, a subsidiary of Janus Methanol. billion, he said.

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SpaceX installs rocket-catching arms on Starship’s Florida launch tower

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Located a stone’s throw from the Gulf of Mexico in Boca Chica, Texas, the first iteration of SpaceX’s Starbase orbital launch site (OLS) is nearly complete and could host Starship’s orbital launch debut in a matter of months. SpaceX began constructing Starship’s Texas launch site in earnest in late 2020.

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SpaceX’s Starship rocket sails through first “flight-like” fueling test

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Since SpaceX began assembling Starhopper in an empty Texas field in 2018, the Starship program has been almost exclusively managed to prioritize speed and expect failures. The next heaviest rockets ever built, Saturn V and N-1 , weighed around 2800 tons (~6.2M lbs) fully loaded.

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