We have cited the work of Columbia's Lenfest Center previously. They, too, are at work on "closing" the carbon cycle: i.e., Capturing the Carbon Dioxide by-product of coal conversion and combustion, and using it as a raw material with which to make more liquid fuels.
Their work emphasizes the validity of other authoritative sources we have cited attesting that a coal-to-liquid fuel conversion industry could lead us into an economically-beneficial and environmentally-friendly era of domestic liquid fuel self-sufficiency.
A very brief excerpt:
"This research builds fundamental understanding of high temperature electrolysis of CO2 and CO2/H2O mixtures to form the basis for a new, more efficient pathway to produce synthetic hydrocarbon fuels."
Should you research Columbia's efforts more fully, you will find that, as we have earlier suggested and as other researchers are investigating, Lenfest, too, is proposing that the products of CO2 capture and reduction could be added to other raw material streams for the production of more liquid fuel in an appropriately-designed process. In other words, Coal-to-Liquid conversion, and CO2 capture and conversion, could all take place in the same facility and use some of the same processing reactors.