We have previously cited George Olah, of the University of Southern California's Loker Hydrocarbon Institute, on the subject of Carbon Dioxide recycling to valuable hydrocarbons.
Herein, it is documented that, very recently, Dr. Olah, and colleagues, have been awarded a United States Patent on technology to recycle Carbon Dioxide into the quite valuable hydrocarbons, which, in many previous reports, we have documented the utility of: Methanol and Dimethyl Ether.
The excerpt:
Title: Efficient and selective chemical recycling of carbon dioxide to methanol, dimethyl ether and derived products
Patent ID: US7608743
Issue Date: October 27, 2009
Abstract:
Patent ID: US7608743
Issue Date: October 27, 2009
Abstract:
An efficient and environmentally beneficial method of recycling and producing methanol from varied sources of carbon dioxide including flue gases of fossil fuel burning powerplants, industrial exhaust gases or the atmosphere itself. Converting carbon dioxide by chemical or electrochemical reduction secondary treatment to produce essentially methanol, dimethyl ether and derived products.
Inventors: George Olah and G.K. Surya Prakash
Assignee: University of Southern California"
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We won't go into further detail. The patent itself is full of details, and should be read carefully by anyone truly interested in how the Carbon Dioxide byproduct of our Coal-use industries is a precious commodity, a raw material that can be transformed, on a practical basis, into liquid fuels and plastics manufacturing raw materials.
This, we insist, puts the official lie to portrayals of Carbon Dioxide as a dangerous pollutant, a waste that we must be compelled by law to pay to have ineffectively sequestered, or be punished through Cap & Trade taxation for producing.
By the way: The "derived products", from Methanol and DME, which themselves result from CO2 recycling, would be such things, as we have documented, as diesel fuel, gasoline and plastics.
Carbon Dioxide, as now officially recognized by our United States Government, is a valuable raw material resource that can be recovered as a byproduct of our Coal-use industries.