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More Korean CO2 Recycling

 
 
We earlier told you of Korean CO2 recycling developments, and herein is further confirmation of the fact that Korea, where Japan situated one of their military's coal-to-liquid conversion factories, as we've documented, during WWII, is working productively to exploit the economic potential of coal industry's primary by-product, Carbon Dioxide.
 
The excerpt:
 
"The selective synthesis of lower olefins(C2 - C4) by CO2 hydrogenation

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.

We don't have the expertise to adequately explain what "olefins" are, and what can be done with them. But, in brief, they are hydrocarbons which can be used as raw materials in the further synthesis of fuels and plastics. And, "methane", which can be produced in an "increased amount", should be familiar to all involved in the coal industry. It can be used as a gaseous fuel, or, through known technology, be further synthesized into more complex hydrocarbons.

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?