We might have submitted this revealing bit of information previously. If so, forgive the inconveniences our disabled circumstances create for you, and for others.
Repetition, though, in this case, might be useful, since it paves the way for further documentation attesting to the reality of Carbon Dioxide recycling we intend to provide.
We have previously cited the US DOE's Brookhaven, New York, National Laboratory scientist, Meyer Steinberg, and his colleagues there, Creutz and Fujita, relative to the reality of practical technologies which exist for the recycling of Carbon Dioxide.
We have also specifically cited Israeli scientist Martin Halmann, in his collaborations with Swiss researchers, in the development of "tri-reforming" technologies, similar to those explained best so far for us by Penn State University's Chunsan Song and Craig Grimes, wherein Carbon Dioxide is reacted with Methane, which itself can be synthesized from Carbon Dioxide via the 1912 Sabatier process now being further developed by NASA, in order to synthesize hydrocarbon fuels.
Keep all of them, keep all of that, in mind over coming days.
Herein, via the following excerpts from the above link, we submit further evidence, in addition to the Carbon Dioxide recycling patents owned, as we've previously reported, through the corporate proxies United Technologies and Hamilton Standard, by our United States Government as embodied in the Department of Defense, that our Government not only knows that Carbon Dioxide can be profitably reclaimed and recycled into liquid hydrocarbon fuels, it owns the rights to the technologies for doing so.
Comment follows:
"United States Patent 3,959,094 - Electrolytic Synthesis of Methanol from CO2
Date: May, 1976
Inventor: Meyer Steinberg, NY
Assignee: The United States of America
Abstract: A method and system for synthesizing methanol from the CO2 in air using electric power. The CO2 is absorbed by a solution of KOH to form K2CO3 which is electrolyzed to produce methanol, a liquid hydrocarbon fuel.
Claims: The method of synthesizing CH3OH (i.e., Methanol - JtM) comprising the steps of:
a. passing air containing CO2 into contact with an aqueous solution of KOH in an absorber to cause absorption of CO2 from the air by said KOH producing an aqueous solution containing K2CO3 ;
b. passing the solution of K2CO3 through an electrolytic cell having an anode and cathode wherein a D. C. potential is applied to cause electrolysis of the carbonate, methanol being produced at said cathode, and KOH and O2 being formed at said anode, said O2 being released ... .
Description and Background: ... coal is a more economic near-long term alternative fuel than nuclear energy and will be used to supplement domestic liquid and gaseous fossil resources.
However, it is neither practical nor even desirable to use raw coal as a direct energy source in the private transportation sector. Consequently, as might be expected, there is considerable activity devoted to the conversion of coal to alternative forms more suitable for use in automobiles and other vehicles.
As described in my U.S. Pat. application Ser. No. 491,082 filed on June 23, 1974, one alternative is that of converting coal to methanol which is compatible with existing internal combustion energy designs and the fuel distribution systems therefor.
The present invention makes it possible to utilize the electrical power produced in a power plant to convert water and CO2 from the air to produce methanol fuel. By the process described (herein), it is seen that any source of electrical power may be employed, such as coal-fired power plants.
It is thus a principal object of this invention to provide for the production of methanol fuel from the utilization of electrical energy and the absorption of CO2."
