We will, in coming days, provide some technical detail concerning the Carbon Dioxide recycling technology, as being developed by the United States Department of Energy, which we begin to document, via the enclosed link and attached file, herein.
What we find notable in this report is the revelation that a famous scion of the Texas oil industry was aware, and extolled the virtues, of the "Syntrolysis" process, now being refined by the USDOE's Idaho National Laboratory, as indicated following:
"America is on the verge of technological breakthroughs that will enable us to live our lives less dependent on oil. These technologies will help us become better stewards of the environment - and they will help us to confront the serious challenge of global climate change." - President George W. Bush; State of the Union Address; January 22, 2007."
The above quote, in the attached news release from the Idaho National Laboratory, accompanies a photo of President Bush examining the prototype of a machine that consumes Carbon Dioxide and Water, and excretes hydrocarbons.
According to this official United States Department of Energy release:
"Syntrolysis ... is a process developed by the Idaho National Laboratory that (consumes) carbon dioxide while creating synthesis gas ... a combination of hydrogen and carbon monoxide used to produce synthetic fuels."
There is, really, nothing technically new in this dispatch, for those who have followed our posts over the course of the past few years.
As with the Brookhaven, Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories' development of Carbon Dioxide recycling technologies, and those being developed by the contractors United Technologies and Hamilton Standard for our United States Department of Defense, all as we have previously documented for the West Virginia Coal Association, Carbon Dioxide can be, in essence, made to react with Water, using whatever source of energy is most readily available, such as Hydro, Solar, Wind, or - we suggest - waste heat from Coal-fired power plants, to drive the chemical reactions, with the result being the synthesis of a variety of valuable organic products - including fuels.
Again, in reports to follow, we will more thoroughly report development of the "Syntrolysis" technology, wherein Carbon Dioxide is reacted with Water to synthesize valuable hydrocarbons.
But, once more: There is nothing conceptually new in any of this.