We reported some months ago on the Singapore CO2 recycling development, as briefly mentioned below. Our account of it lies in the archives of the WV Coal Association's R&D Blog.
However, the importance of this submission is that South Africa's Sasol, the world's leader in converting coal into liquid fuels, is now making ready to commercialize one of the several technologies that do exist for recycling Carbon Dioxide - into more liquid fuels and chemical feed stocks for plastics manufacturing.
A brief excerpt:
"JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – South Africa's coal-to-liquids company Sasol is studying the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into fuel.
Engineers and scientists in Sasol's technology division are working on algaeic forms of methanol production and Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology reported a CO2-to-methanol breakthrough earlier this year."
As we've said before: Carbon Dioxide, as arises from our use of coal, isn't a pollutant, but a raw material resource of great potential value.