We present, following, only the briefest of excerpts from this report of Korean research into the recycling of Carbon Dioxide.
The full document, attached and also accessible via the above link, is technically dense and, like much of what we have discovered, beyond our limited ability to adequately simplify and fully explain.
The conclusion which can be drawn, though, should be clear to everyone, as it is clear to us: Technologies do exist which - like the very concrete, practical and well-established processes for converting our abundant coal into liquid fuels - would enable us to reclaim, recycle and make profitable use of coal's most misunderstood by-product, Carbon Dioxide, in order to help us achieve domestic liquid fuel self-sufficiency.
The significance of this Korean research, "for the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to valuable materials such as light olefins or liquid hydrocarbons", as below, is, we think, that the technology for recycling CO2, like coal-to-liquid conversion science, is so well-understood and accepted in certain, knowledgeable, circles that considerable effort can be, and is being, applied to refining CO2 conversion technology, to make it even more effective and profitable.
Excerpt follows.
"CATALYTIC HYDROGENATION OF CO2: INTO HYDROCARBONS:
SUPPORT EFFECTS ON Fe AND Fe-K CATALYSTS.
Ki-Won Jun, Soo-Jae Lee, Myuong-Jae Choi and Kyu-Wan Lee Catalysis Division; Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology Taejon 305-600, Korea
INTRODUCTION Since accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is now regarded as one of the major reasons of the Global Warming, interest in the reutilization of carbon dioxide is on the increase. It is desirable for the reutilization of carbon dioxide to develop the technology for the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to valuable materials such as light olefins or liquid hydrocarbons."
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Why news of such development, of the "technology for the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to valuable materials", isn't being broadcast to a wider audience, or being undertaken on a far-wider, much more public, scale, is, we insist, an issue that needs investigated, a problem that needs corrected.
