News:090707:rp.pl-translation:Gasoline from carbon dioxide is not science fiction - PESWiki
The following excerpts, from the enclosed link, translated as they are from the original Polish, might seem awkwardly worded, but they're worth a patient read.
If you've followed Mountain State news reports, you know that a plant is being installed, or is planned to be installed, in Charleston, WV, by a French company, to capture an existing power plant's stack gas and pump the CO2 underground for "sequestration".
In Poland, one of the original cradles of the Renaissance, a Coal-fired power plant there is making ready to capture their Carbon Dioxide; and, as we have many times documented to be feasible, convert it, through Methanol, into Gasoline.
Comment follows:
"Gasoline From Carbon Dioxide Is Not Science Fiction
By Tomasz Niespial; translated by Henryk Mongialo
July 7, 2009
Chemists from Lublin know how to produce mass-scale low-cost fuel.
"The revolution is unfolding before our very eyes", said the head of research team of Professor Dobiesław Nazimek from the University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska (UMCS). Tomorrow, Wrotków Power of Lublin, the largest producer of carbon dioxide in the Lublin and UMCS will sign a letter of intent of cooperation for the production of low-cost fuel from carbon dioxide.
"This is an idea that could revolutionize energy and fuel" ...
Scientists from Lublin are committed to his invention. Nitrogen Plants in Kedzierzyn-Kozle will feature the first commercial installation. This year, four of these environmentally friendly facilities may begin
Prof. Dobiesław Nazimek: We used a form of artificial photosynthesis, a chemical reaction during which water and carbon dioxide, in the presence of a catalyst and under the influence of deep ultraviolet, turns into methanol. Also concurrently is the thermal separation and synthesis of MTG (with methanol in petrol). We get synthetic hydrocarbons with practically no difference from the [native] substance, which [can run] cars. This 108-octane fuel is clean and environmentally friendly.
(By "MTG", we take them to mean Methanol-to-Gasoline, as in ExxonMobil's technology, which we have many times documented. - JtM)
In Poland, with [traditional methods] it cost about 40 cents to obtain 1 liter of methanol from methane. Our method allows to obtain the same effect at 9 - 11 cents; so to produce a liter of gasoline goes from forty to just a few cents. It is impossible to estimate how much you will pay for such fuel at the station, but the price should be competitive.
(Note that, almost casually, they remark that Methanol can be made from Methane, which can itself be made from Carbon Dioxide, via the Nobel-winning Sabatier process now being employed by NASA. But, if they mean that, through their more direct CO2-to-Methanol process they are able to obtain, via Methanol, a liter of Gasoline for about 11 cents, that extrapolates, roughly, to less than 50 cents a gallon - from recycled Coal-fired power plant Carbon Dioxide. - JtM)
We developed a [repeatable] method by which [a factory can] produce fuel from CO2. Anywhere that carbon dioxide is emitted [in volume], you can build such a facility and sell petrol. Calculations indicate that the technology will help to reduce CO2 emissions in its first year by about 25 percent.
Production of fuel from carbon dioxide is a solution for the economies around the world. It is a strategy that can rid our dependence on imported fuel.
The idea has been patented in the last year, but we must hurry, because our colleagues from the United States months ago obtained the same results as ours. It would be a pity if the whole world bought equipment from them, and not from us."
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We don't know who the Professor is referring to in the statement "our colleagues from the United States months ago obtained the same results", although we have documented for you Penn State University's achievements in tri-reforming Carbon Dioxide with Methane to synthesize higher hydrocarbons; and, we have reported the US Patents held by the US Defense Department's corporate proxies, United Technologies and Hamilton Standard, for various and related components of a complete CO2-to-Liquid Fuel technology.
But, of most interest to us are the statements that: "Yes. We developed a [repeatable] method by which [a factory can] produce fuel from CO2. Anywhere that carbon dioxide is emitted [in volume], you can build such a facility and sell petrol." And: "Tomorrow, Wrotków Power of Lublin, the largest producer of carbon dioxide in the Lublin and UMCS will sign a letter of intent of cooperation for the production of low-cost fuel from carbon dioxide."
Don't we have a number of places in the Ohio Valley, where the Ohio River, and it's tributaries, flow past cities like Charleston, Pittsburgh and Huntington, where "carbon dioxide is emitted [in volume]"? Why don't we, at each and every one of those Ohio, Kanawha, Allegheny and other river valley Coal-fired power plants "build such a facility and sell petrol"?
Or, would we really rather pay all the costs to collect all of our CO2, and ship it, post paid, to West Texas, so that they can stuff it down their leaky oil field rat holes to extract more petroleum?