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Does AGR tech work on methane turbine generators?

Shouldn't all methane-powered equipment have this AGR (or similar) new emission reduction technology?

From https://www.ornl.gov/news/add-device-makes-home-furnaces-cle... :

ORNL’s award-winning ultraclean condensing high-efficiency natural gas furnace features an affordable add-on technology that can remove more than 99.9% of acidic gases and other emissions. The technology can also be added to other natural gas-driven equipment.

Develop an AGR Acidic Gas Reduction add-on part for methane turbines?

Would (Solar Turbines,) consider selling an AGR emissions limiting product or add-on?

ScholarlyArticle: "Nondestructive neutron imaging diagnosis of acidic gas reduction catalyst after 400-Hour operation in natural gas furnace" (2023) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13858...

FWIU basically no generators have a catalytic converter, because catalytic converters require computer-controlled fuel ignition.

There's also turquoise hydrogen; H Hydrogen from Methane CH4.

There's also turquoise hydrogen; H Hydrogen from Methane CH4.

But then what do you do with the CO2?

There is no CO2. It produces carbon instead.

o-CNT would be biodegradable.

Ironically, it looks like you have to add oxygen back to that to make it worth money:

Public link: Commercial Methane Pyrolysis Overview https://gemini.google.com/share/918e7883df8a :

Because the economic model of pyrolysis requires selling the solid carbon byproduct, local carbon black prices dictate profitability

; per/kg:

Carbon Black: $1.20 - $1.80
o-CNTs: $150 - $300+
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