The excerpt:
"A "clean air" revolution may be underway to reduce atmospheric CO2 and turn it into useful methanol. Researchers Robyn Obert and Bakul C. Dave at Sourthern Illinois University encapsulated three enzymes into Silica Sol-Gel Matrices and used the enzymes' catalytic abilities to convert CO2 to methanol (Obert & Dave, 1999)."
We've previously alerted you to the coal utilization research underway at SIU. Like WVU, PSU and the Universities of Dayton and North Dakota, who all have coal-to-liquid studies underway, SIU's faculty might be able to shed more light on how coal, and the useful by-products of it's employment, can solve our energy "crisis".