Ho Kim, Dae-Ho Choi, Sang-Sung Nam, Myung-Jae Choi and Kyu-Wan Lee
Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, P.O. Box 107, Yusong, Taejon 305-600, Korea
Iron catalysts promoted with potassium and supported on ion-exchanged zeolite were examined for catalytic activity and product selectivity in the CO2 hydrogenation. The catalysts were prepared by impregnating the support with iron nitrate followed by calcination and in-situ reduction with hydrogen and were characterized by (various) technique(s). ... (test conditions) significantly improved the hydrogenation yield and the C2-C4 olefins selectivity. (Other conditions) resulted in an increased amount of methane production."
"Hydrogenation" should be a term now familiar to all our readers. Generically, it's how Germany and Japan converted coal into liquid fuels for their militaries during WWII.
Since we can, it seems, turn Carbon Dioxide into such valuable products, doesn't it make a lot more sense to do THAT, rather than to cripple our coal-use industries, through imposing wasteful, and essentially fraudulent, Cap & Trade taxation schemes on them; or, through forcing them to support the imperious oil industry by subsidizing depleted petroleum reservoir-scraping efforts; efforts disguised under the neutral and innocent-sounding technical label of Sequestration?