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What I'd like to do is create a sink for consuming solar energy in the summer. Take charcoal made from hay -> generate methanol and store it. One interesting reaction you can do with methanol is this thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_to_liquids#Methanol_to_gasoline_(MTG)_and_methanol_to_olefins It generates a bunch of heat, so you can run that reaction in the winter and heat the house with it, and the output is *surprisingly* similar to 87 octane gas, given it doesn't involve any kind of fractional distillation.