Our excerpt from the attached file is brief. Due to way we had to track it down, we are unable to include a web link to it, or to provide details of it's time and place of publication. However, we feel certain the document is valid.
We have many times documented Penn State University's "Tri-reforming" process, and other, similar, technologies, wherein Carbon Dioxide can be reacted with Methane, which itself can be synthesized from Carbon Dioxide or Coal, as we have also many times documented, to synthesize higher hydrocarbons suitable as raw materials for liquid fuel or plastics manufacturing.
Herein, it is documented that knowledge of such Carbon Dioxide recycling technologies exists in the very heart of US Coal Country - at West Virginia University.
Brief comment follows the excerpt:
"Methane Reforming with Carbon Dioxide
Edwin L. Kugler, Dady B. Dadyburjor, Lawrence Norcio and Mahesh Iyer
Department of Chemical Engineering, West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV 26506
Introduction
The reforming of methane with carbon dioxide for the production of synthesis gas is appealing because it produces synthesis gas with higher purity and lower H2-to-CO ratio than either partial oxidation or steam reforming. Lower H2-to-CO ratio is a preferable feedstock for the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis of long-chain hydrocarbons. On the environmental perspective, methane reforming is enticing due to the reduction of carbon dioxide and methane emissions as both are viewed as harmful greenhouse gases. Commercially, nickel is used for methane reforming reactions due to its inherent availability and lower cost compared to noble metals. However, nickel also catalyses carbon formation via methane decomposition and CO
disproportionation (Boudouard reaction). Thus, notable efforts have been concentrated on exploring new catalysts, which are resistant to carbon formation. Sulphur passivated nickel catalysts and noble metals have been shown to exhibit resistance to carbon formation. But the low activity of sulphur passivated nickel and the high costs and limited availability of the noble metals have limited their application.
There has been considerable interest in the catalytic properties of metal carbides. The production of metal carbides is abundant and their price is cheap compared to noble metals. It has been suggested that they can replace the rare and expensive noble metals in catalysis. Identifying better catalysts would reduce process costs for methanol, ammonia, and Fischer-Tropsch plants. The objective of this research is to develop new metal carbide catalysts for syngas production from methane reforming with carbon dioxide.
(In brief, they tested a commercially available zeolite catalyst from United Catalyst, Inc., and a catalyst they cooked up in their lab from Platinum and Zirconium. And, although their results in reforming Methane with CO2 using their own catalyst were, it seems, disappointing, they learned enough to plan a continuing effort, as follows.)
Future Work
The catalyst testing unit was found to be in good working condition. Future work includes preparation and catalyst testing of molybdenum and tungsten carbide catalysts. A new experimental setup will be fabricated for the preparation of molybdenum carbide."
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WVU's report is much longer than our excerpt, and contains many technical details.
But, yet again: Carbon Dioxide can be recycled. Carbon Dioxide can be used in the "reforming of methane" into "synthesis gas with higher purity" which "is a preferable feedstock for the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis of long-chain hydrocarbons".
Carbon Dioxide can be used to make liquid fuels, "long-chain hydrocarbons". We can do it now, and some Coal Country scientists are, or at least were, at work to help us get better at it.
West Virginia University knows that Carbon Dioxide can be recycled. They know it is a raw material resource of potentially great value that arises, in a small way relative to natural sources of emission, as a by-product from our use of Coal.
Yet, the West Virginia public doesn't know it.
And, because of that, West Virginia's, and all of the United States', vital - and potentially critical, if the suppressed technologies that would enable us to convert our vast reserves of coal into the liquid fuels we're now being extorted by alien powers for the supply of were publicly revealed and implemented - coal industries are being sapped and strangled by special interests whose true goals are most definitely not the sustainable, self-sufficient prosperity of the United States of America.