"The use of electrolytically produced syngas for producing renewable liquid fuels is discussed; an energy-storage cycle based on such liquid fuels is CO2-neutral, similar to hydrogen, and has the potential to be more efficient and easier to implement."
This is important, Mike. It reinforces some of our earlier dispatches regarding the actual employment of CO2, arising from coal use - whether the coal is used for power, chemicals or liquid fuels - as a raw material for more liquid fuels (and other useful things, actually).
The process described herein uses water and carbon dioxide, as we earlier suggested, and documented, to be possible, and practical, to make syngas, which you should by now know can be easily produced from coal. Syngas can then be transformed, via several established processes, into liquid fuel
It is, as an expert in this field just wrote us: "Game changing".