Methanogenic Conversion of Carbon Dioxide into Methane
Continuing with our thesis that the Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide isn't just a way to dispose of the gas, but a disguised recycling, at Coal Country's expense and to Big Oil's profit, of a valuable by-product of our coal-use industries, we submit the enclosed link and accompanying excerpt.
As we expand our research, it is becoming even more abundantly clear that enforced geologic sequestration of Carbon Dioxide is a deceitful gambit, a scheme designed to have our Coal-use industries pay for the "restocking" of depleted natural petroleum reservoirs with a raw material, CO2, that "bugs" will turn into a blend of gases which can then be used to manufacture liquid fuels and substitute petroleum products.
In confirmation of the research supporting that assertion we earlier reported from Germany, herein is the report of similar findings.
And, make note of who paid for this research, in:
"Methanogenic Conversion of Carbon Dioxide into Methane: A Breakthrough Geologic Sequestration Technology
Mr. Mark Rogers, Principal Investigator
Advanced Resources International, Inc., Arlington, VA
DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-03ER83596
Abstract: Geologic sequestration of CO2 is a promising control technology for greenhouse gases, however, applied on a wide scale, it will generate thousands of large CO2 deposits in the U.S. This could provoke environmental concern about CO2 “waste disposal” and jeopardize ambitious geologic sequestration R&D efforts. Fortunately, it is known that certain naturally occurring bacteria (“methanogens”) have the remarkable ability to convert CO2 into methane within geologic reservoirs (many natural gas fields were created this way). This project will develop technology for introducing these bacterial consortia into geologic sequestration sites in order to harness their natural methanogenic ability to remediate these sites and also generate large and readily producible new natural gas resources.
The successful application of naturally occurring methanogens to remediate CO2 sequestration sites would head off environmental objections to sequestration as waste disposal and open up this greenhouse gas reduction technology to widespread application by power generation, chemical, petroleum, and other industries. The technology also could generate new natural gas resources and even could allow the conversion of sub-economic (high CO2) natural gas deposits into pure and economical methane deposits."
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Witness: Through the action of methanogenic bacteria, our effluent Carbon Dioxide "could generate large and ... new natural gas resources".
"New natural gas resources" that, we submit, will have been created solely at the expense of the Coal industry and the consumers of Coal-based products, which would include Coal-generated electric power.
Who is it that will profit from such "new natural gas resources"?
Well, in a dispatch soon to follow, about a US Patent owned by Exxon, we will anyway.
Nevertheless, we don't need bacteria to convert Carbon Dioxide into Methane. Paul Sabatier won the Nobel Prize for showing us how to do it artificially early in the last century. Once we have Methane, we can reform it with more Carbon Dioxide to synthesize liquid fuels. And, we can do it right here, on an industrial basis, in West Virginia and in Pennsylvania, in the heart of US Coal Country, and keep the profits for ourselves. We don't have to pay to ship our CO2 all the way to some dried-up oil patch in West Texas to let their underground bugs do it for us, and then pay to buy the fuels those bugs synthesize.
It's almost as if we would be compelled by law to pay someone to collect and haul away all of our farts, and then be forced to buy those farts back after they had been repackaged in perfume bottles.
But, if bugs can do it better underground, then don't we have some dried up old oil fields of our own we could use? Didn't the first US commercial well come into production near Oil City, PA? Wasn't Sistersville, WV, once considered to be, per capita, the wealthiest town in the United States because of it's little old oil patch?
It's far past time we US Coal Country citizens wised up and got real about all of this; far past time we stopped letting ourselves get pushed around and bamboozled because of all the, we contend deliberate, bad news nonsense about Carbon Dioxide.
