"Founded in 2006, Carbon Recycling International, Ehf, captures carbon dioxide from industrial emissions and converts carbon dioxide to renewable fuel, including renewable methanol and renewable Di-Methyl-Ether (DME). Other fuels, such as gasoline and diesel, can be derived from these feed stocks.
CRI is a venture-backed Icelandic American company with headquarters in Iceland and operations in Iceland."
And, they post a list of officers and "Advisors". Among them, we find:
"Advisors
- George Olah, Ph.D.: Nobel Prize Laureate, Chemistry, USC, USA".
Nature’s photosynthesis uses the sun’s energy with chlorophyll in plants as a catalyst to recycle carbon dioxide and water into new plant life. Only given sufficient geological time can new fossil fuels be formed naturally. In contrast, chemical recycling of carbon dioxide from natural and industrial sources as well as varied human activities or even from the air itself to methanol or dimethyl ether (DME) and their varied products can be achieved via its capture and subsequent reductive hydrogenative conversion. The present Perspective reviews this new approach and our research in the field over the last 15 years. Carbon recycling represents a significant aspect of our proposed Methanol Economy. Any available energy source (alternative energies such as solar, wind, geothermal, and atomic energy) can be used for the production of needed hydrogen and chemical conversion of CO2. Improved new methods for the efficient reductive conversion of CO2 to methanol and/or DME that we have developed include bireforming with methane and ways of catalytic or electrochemical conversions. Liquid methanol is preferable to highly volatile and potentially explosive hydrogen for energy storage and transportation. Together with the derived DME, they are excellent transportation fuels for internal combustion engines (ICE) and fuel cells as well as convenient starting materials for synthetic hydrocarbons and their varied products. Carbon dioxide thus can be chemically transformed from a detrimental greenhouse gas causing global warming into a valuable, renewable and inexhaustible carbon source of the future allowing environmentally neutral use of carbon fuels and derived hydrocarbon products."
We emphasize: "Chemical recycling of carbon dioxide from natural and industrial sources as well as varied human activities or even from the air itself to methanol or dimethyl ether (DME) and their varied products can be achieved."
Note how both CRI's corporate web site and Olah's very recent American Chemical Society report echo with similar words, phrases, meanings and implications. And then consider, in light of the fact that coal liquefaction technology, as well as a method for Carbon Dioxide recycling, as we've documented, both won Nobel Prizes in the first half of the last century; that we are, somehow, "short" of liquid petroleum-type fuels; and, that our coal industries are being legislated and politicized into an impotent insignificance directed towards extinction.
Aren't we increasingly-poor citizens of Coal Country tired, yet, of having the wool pulled over our eyes and our shorts yanked up over our heads, while Big Oil and his unwitting environmentalist stooges pick our pockets and split the take with Oil Sheiks lounging under palm trees in the desert?