Landlocked Switzerland's Alpine geologic terrain contains no oil or commercial reserves of coal.
They have, however, like our own US Navy, and the DOD's defense contractors, as affirmed in their several patents for CO2 recycling, copies of which we sent you, figured out how to drill for oil in the, for the Swiss, very thin air.
The Swiss, like Japan, Korea, China, Singapore and South Africa's coal liquefaction giant, Sasol, have realized the importance behind Sabatier's Nobel-winning technology for reclaiming Carbon Dioxide, from coal plant emissions and from the atmosphere, and converting it into liquid hydrocarbon fuels.
The excerpt, with a, perhaps pertinent, comment, and a question, appended:
"Document title
Hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to methanol with a discharge-activated catalyst Authors
ELIASSON B.; KOGELSCHATZ U. ; BINGZHANG XUE ; ZHOU L.-M. Affiliations
ABB Corporate Research Ltd., 5405 Baden, SUISSE
Abstract
To mitigate greenhouse gas CO2 emissions and recycle its carbon source, one possible approach would be to separate CO2 from the flue gases of power plants and to convert it to a liquid fuel, e.g., methanol. Hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol is investigated in a dielectric-barrier discharge (DBD) with and without the presence of a catalyst. Comparison of experiments shows that this nonequilibrium discharge can effectively lower the temperature range of optimum catalyst performance. The simultaneous presence of the discharge shifts the temperature region of maximum catalyst activity from 220 to 100°C, a much more desirable temperature range. The presence of the catalyst, on the other hand, increases the methanol yield and selectivity by more than a factor of 10 in the discharge. Experiment and numerical simulation show that methane formation is the major competitive reaction for methanol formation in the discharge. In the case of low electric power and high pressure, methanol formation can surpass methanation in the process. Journal Title
Industrial & engineering chemistry research ISSN 0888-885 CODEN IECRED; 1998, vol. 37, no8, pp. 3350-3357 (32 ref.)
Publisher
American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, ETATS-UNIS (1987) (Revue)"
This article, on recycling the Carbon Dioxide arising from our coal-use industries, and converting it into a valuable alcohol, methanol, which is an excellent liquid fuel and plastics manufacturing raw material; which can also be converted, through at least one commercial technology, our oft-mentioned Exxon-Mobil "MTG"(r), Methanol-to-Gasoline process, into the standard-issue gasoline we're all familiar with; and, which can also be with great alacrity synthesized from coal and renewable cellulose, was written by Swiss power company researchers, including, it would appear, some Chinese nationals. However, it was published more than 20 years ago, in English and by the American Chemical Society.
Why, then, have we American Coal Country citizens not been informed of these developments and potentials at some point during those two decades: those twenty years we've been sending our young people to die in OPEC wars; those twenty years we've been allowing our vital coal industries to shrivel under the attacks of, perhaps well-meaning, environmentalists; those twenty years we've allowed our hard-working and patriotic coal people to languish at the precipice of poverty; those twenty years we have financed and defended the lavish lifestyles of oil sheiks and oil company robber barons?
