We've been hearing "10 years of oil left" for decades. It's the free beer tomorrow sign of the energy world. But crude oil and other natural resources really are getting scarcer and lower quality, and syngas (a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen) is one of the strongest plasma powered answers to that problem.

In this episode I answer a viewer question from LinkedIn about the wave of syngas startups using plasma and natural gas, and what it means for the shift away from fossil fuels.

We cover what syngas actually is, how plasma can produce it from methane and water or straight from municipal trash, and the wide range of things you can do with it: ammonia for fertilizer, methanol and other alcohols, liquid fuels, electricity, hydrogen fuel cells, even reducing iron ore into metal.

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00:00 Running out of crude oi ...