NOVELTY - Transporting energy comprises: providing an input chemical species comprising at least one gas species having carbon and a component comprising methane, hydrogen, water, and/or a solid species containing carbon; converting at least a portion of the input chemical species using a reforming process into an output chemical species; optimizing the reforming process to produce hydrogen gas; separating the hydrogen gas from the output chemical species to form a high energy transport gas; and transporting the high energy transport gas by conventional transportation means to an end use.    USE - The method is useful for transporting energy.    ADVANTAGE - The method: increases the energy capacity of current natural gas pipelines and other storage and transport vessels; and provides an abundant source for hydrogen production, and thus the energy from hydrogen is used to generate electricity or to fuel a motor vehicle.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - Transporting energy comprises: providing an input chemical species comprising at least one gas species containing carbon and a component comprising methane, hydrogen, water, and/or a solid species containing carbon, where the input species has a heat of combustion equal to or less than methane; converting at least a portion of the input chemical species using a reforming process into an output chemical species that has at least one new gaseous species having a higher heat of combustion than methane, where the output chemical species comprises a chemical species comprising hydrogen, methane, acetylene, ethane, ethylene, and/or propylene, and the heat of combustion of carbon is maintained in the reformed species; optimizing the reforming process to produce hydrogen gas; separating the hydrogen gas from the output chemical species to form a high energy transport gas; and transporting the high energy transport gas by conventional transportation means to an end use, where the process is optimized to maximize total heat of combustion of the high energy transport gas. An INDEPENDENT CLAIM is also included for a high energy transport gas derived from the method as above per se.