We know that our dispatches on the subject of reclaiming and recycling the Carbon Dioxide arising from our use of coal - whether the coal is employed for power generation or liquid fuel and chemical manufacture - have been compendious. We feel they have to be. So much popular press has been devoted to the demonization of coal, and the by-products of it's use, that a veritable ocean of true scientific literature will have to be presented to overcome the effects of the lies and make plain the truth of the matter.
Not only can coal be economically and cleanly transmuted into needed liquid fuel, the by-products of that transmutation are themselves valuable raw material resources.
As additional evidence, we submit this enclosed article and the appended comment:
"Titre du document / Document title
Hydrogenation of carbon dioxide over Fe-Cu-Na/zeolite composite catalysts : Na migration via solid-solid reaction and its effects on the catalytic activity
Auteur(s) / Author(s)
QIANG XU (1) ; DEHUA HE ; FUJIWARA M. ; TANAKA M.; SOUMA Y.; YAMANAKA H.
Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s) Osaka National Research Institute, AIST, MITI, 1-8-31 Midorigaoka, Ikeda, Osaka 563, JAPON
Résumé / Abstract
Composite catalysts containing zeolites and Na-rich Fe-Cu Fischer-Tropsch catalysts (all of which we've previously described and documented as coal-to-liquid catalysts - JtM) were studied for the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide at 250°C. Sodium migration from the surface of the F-T catalyst to the zeolite via solid-solid reaction seemed to change the acidity of the zeolite and the reduction degree of the Fe catalyst, which finding was supported by TG and XRD measurements. It was shown that branched and higher hydrocarbons can be obtained in good yields (From Carbon Dioxide - JtM) by using composite catalysts containing iron-based catalysts with moderate alkali content and zeolites with suitable acidity."
Pretty detailed stuff.
And, note: This is from Japan, where a coal-to-liquid fuel plant, at Kobe, was the target of Allied bombing in WWII, and from where technical and financial support for a current coal-to-liquid fuel factory, being built in Malaysia, is coming.
The upshot: We can make gasoline from Carbon Dioxide using the same technology we can use to make gasoline from coal.