Herein, we submit even more evidence, and more is to follow in coming days, that the Oil Industry, and our own United States Government, have known for a very long time - at least, as herein, half a century - that Carbon Dioxide is a valuable raw material resource which we can utilize in the synthesis of higher hydrocarbons.
We have reported on tri-reforming technologies seemingly developed only in recent years by Penn State University, and others, wherein Carbon Dioxide can be reacted with Methane, and in some cases with Steam as well, in order to generate more complex hydrocarbons suitable for use in manufacturing liquid fuels.
And, keep in mind that any interested scientist would know that, as the Nobel Committee confirmed in 1912, Methane could be synthesized, via the Sabatier process, from Carbon Dioxide.
Big Oil had put all of that together before you were even born.
Comment follows excerpts from the enclosed link to, and attached file of:
"United States Patent 2,526,521 - Production of ... CO and H2
Date: October, 1950
Inventor: Alexis Voorhies, Baton Rouge, LA
Assignee: Standard Oil Development Co., a corporation of Delaware
Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved process for producing gas mixtures containing CO and H2 from hydrocarbon gases by reaction with steam and CO2.
More specifically the invention relates to a method ... for the production of gas mixtures suitable as feed gases for the catalytic synthesis of normally liquid hydrocarbons ... .
Claims: (A) process of producing gas mixtures containing H2 and CO in proportions suitable for the catalytic synthesis of hydrocarbons by passing hydrocarbon gases with steam and CO2 ... through an extended catalyst column.
(The hydrocarbon gases consist) essentially of methane."
