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[Christophe]

metrole?
If it is petroleum, Bucheron's answer remains valid ...

[nonoLeRobot]

You will find 2 3 interesting links on ethanol and on the Fischer-Tropsch process which allows to make gasoline from wood (I don't know if it goes through methanol?).

http://kyot-home.com/wiki/index.php/Biocarburant

Good luck:

[delnoram]

Well sorry to disappoint you but methanol is mostly produced nowadays from natural gas or petroleum ... so it's not really a RES ...

This is the answer I expected from you, but in the event of a total oil shortage, methanol would return to what it was at the start.
Furthermore

industrial ethanol is produced by synthesis (hydration) from ethylene: CH2 = CH2 + H2O V CH3 — CH2OH.

This too leaves a doubt as to its origin in the event of too high demand.

[Woodcutter]

[...] I wonder if there wouldn't be a way to make methanol myself so as to bluff my jury in January ^^

Of course !
You take a still and distill dry wood ... Simple, right?


Or you have that: reaction at 400 ° C and 200 atm of CO2 and H2 in the presence of a catalyst based on zinc chromite (ZnO + Cr2O3).
CO2 + 3 H2 -> CH3OH + H2O
(BASF, 1930)

where :
(HERE, 1960)