Last month, as available via: Grumman Aerospace Recycles CO2 | Research & Development | News; we made report of "US Patent 4,282,187 - Hydrocarbons from Air, Water and Low Cost Electrical Power", which was awarded and assigned to Grumman all the way back in 1981.
The disclosed technology is one which enables us, as Grumman puts it, to manufacture "synthetic hydrocarbons such as gasoline and/or kerosene from the synthesis of carbon dioxide and hydrogen".
And, Grumman specifies efficient means for collecting CO2 and for generating Hydrogen.
Herein, we see that, apparently encouraged by that success in the productive recycling of Carbon Dioxide, the same team of Grumman scientists kept at their work, and refined their science for making liquid hydrocarbon fuels out of Carbon Dioxide.
Comment follows excerpts from the initial link in this dispatch, to the later, but identically-titled:
"United States Patent 4,339,547 - Hydrocarbons from Air, Water and Low Cost Electrical Power
Date: July, 1982
Inventors: Marshall Corbett and Salvatore Salina, NY
Assignee: Grumman Aerospace Corporation, NY
Abstract: A process for manufacturing synthetic hydrocarbons such as gasoline and/or kerosene from the synthesis of carbon dioxide and hydrogen. The carbon dioxide is obtained from the atmosphere while the hydrogen is obtained during the electrolysis of water. An intermediate fuel, namely methyl alcohol may be stored for use or upgraded to higher heating value hydrocarbons by a catalytic conversion.
(An aside: the "methyl alcohol", as above, is Methanol; and, one better-known process of "catalytic conversion", wherein it can be "upgraded to higher heating value hydrocarbons", is the ExxonMobil "MTG"(r) process, wherein the Methanol, which, as in Grumman's technology, is made from Carbon Dioxide, is converted into Gasoline.)
This is a division, of application Ser. No. 77,880, filed Sept. 21, 1979 and now U.S. Pat. No. 4,282,187.
Claims: A process for manufacturing synthetic hydrocarbons fuels from the synthesis of CO2 and H2.
Background and Field: The present invention relates to the production of synthetic hydrocarbons and more particularly to a process for hydrocarbon synthesis from CO2 and H2, derived from environmental matter, which produces methanol which may be upgraded to gasoline grade fuel."
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We forgo reproduction of technical details. It should suffice that, as herein, our own United States Government confirms that we can affect a "hydrocarbon synthesis from CO2 and H2"; wherein the CO2 and H2 are collected from the environment, as in "derived from environmental matter"; and, are then converted into "methanol which may be upgraded to gasoline".
In other words, we have, as herein officially, known that we can recycle Carbon Dioxide, as arises in only a small way, relative to natural sources of emission, such as volcanoes, from our varied and productive uses of Coal, in the synthesis of Gasoline, for very nearly three decades.
Isn't it far, far past time we, all of us, came to know that publicly?