http://sschi.chtf.stuba.sk/konf2003%5Cabstracts%5C117.pdf
We earlier made report of developments in Poland, whereby Carbon Dioxide can be recycled into inexpensive Gasoline, now posted on the West Virginia Coal Association's web site as: "Poland CO2 to 50-cent Gasoline; 5/21/2010", wherein Polish researchers reveal that "Gasoline from Carbon Dioxide is not Science Fiction".
In this submission, we document that other scientists in Poland, in confirmation of developments we've already reported and documented from some of our own United States National Laboratories, and from others, herein reveal, in earlier developments, that Methanol from Carbon Dioxide isn't science fiction, either.
Comment follows brief excerpts from the above link to:
"Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol
30th International Conference of SSCHE; (Slovak Society of Chemical Engineering) 2003
M. Lachowska and J. Skrzypek
Institute if Chemical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences
Methanol is a very important chemical with a wide range of applications. For (copper) containing Methanol synthesis catalysts it has been well established that Methanol is formed mainly from CO2.
Our investigation confirmed ... advantageous influence of zirconium on the catalyst activity. Addition of (manganese) ... increases the rate of Methanol production.
The crude Methanol (thus formed from Carbon Dioxide) does not contain practically any by products other than water."
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First off, Manganese and Zirconium aren't that exotic, or expensive. If we need them and want them, we can fairly easily get them.
And, once we have Methanol, synthesized from Carbon Dioxide, if we don't want to use it as is for liquid fuel, we can make Gasoline with it, via ExxonMobil's MTG(r), methanol-to-gasoline, process; or, we can utilize it in the manufacture of plastics and other valuable products, as a substitute for raw materials currently made from petroleum.
