Green Glass: Carbon Dioxide to Methanol

 
 
The expected excerpt:
 
"Some fancy footwork with enzymes and a special kind of glass could offer a way to convert carbon dioxide emissions from power plants into methanol, says SIUC materials chemist Bakul Dave. He and a former student of his have demonstrated the feasibility of the idea on a laboratory scale."
 
This is laboratory scale, and we've already informed you of one commercial reduction to practice.
 
But, SIUC appears to be very active in coal utilization research, and we wanted to highlight more of their efforts and suggest, again, that solutions - profitable solutions - to the "problem" of coal-derived CO2 are both here, and on the way.