Carbon Sciences Innovations in Recycling CO2 Into Fuel Acknowledged During Congressional Hearing on Capitol Hill - FOXBusines.
We have been urging that we, the people of the United States, stop wasting time and effort in an endless, unproductive wrangle about how to best throw away a potentially-valuable resource: the Carbon Dioxide generated as a by-product of our coal use; and, instead, focus our efforts on finding ways to efficiently collect and profitably use it.
In support of our argument, we submit the enclosed expert testimony to our US Congress.
Some excerpts from the link:
"SANTA BARBARA, CA, May 11, 2009 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) ----Carbon Sciences Inc., the developer of a breakthrough technology to recycle carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into gasoline and other fuels, announced that its innovative approach to carbon recycling was recognized in a testimony before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development Hearing on "Beneficial Reuse of Carbon Dioxide from Coal and Other Fossil Fuel Facilities" held on May 6."
(First, why wasn't this hearing publicized? Sounds to us like it should have been headline news in Appalachia, or anywhere else coal is mined to put bread on the table. - JtM)
"Margie Tatro, Director of Fuel and Water Systems at Sandia National Laboratories, the multi-program national security laboratory owned by the U.S. Department of Energy and Sandia Corporation, testified on the environmental and economic benefits that would be achieved with significant investments in the carbon recycling sector. The principle focus of Tatro's congressional testimony was on carbon recycling technologies, which she believes hold the most promise in carbon management over other approaches such as reducing, reusing or burying CO2."
"Tatro explained, "The U.S. economy and environment would benefit from investments in scalable technologies and processes for recycling of carbon dioxide (CO2) as one option for addressing two critical, yet interrelated, challenges facing our nation and the world -- stabilizing the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere and producing new supplies of liquid hydrocarbon fuels that help reduce our dependence on petroleum."
"Her testimony continued outlining specific carbon management options. Recognizing other progressive work in carbon recycling, Tatro said, "Hybrid biological and electrical approaches are showing progress. Examples include work at Princeton and announcements from the private sector, such as Carbon Sciences.""
We have previously documented for you some of the work at Princeton, and we will provide some documentation concerning Carbon Sciences, who are commercializing a technology purchased from, or assigned by, Canada's University of British Columbia, in Vancouver.
Point is, again: Carbon Dioxide arising from full implementation of our vast coal resources, whether we are using that coal to generate power or to synthesize much-needed liquid fuel and chemical manufacturing raw materials, is itself a valuable raw material resource, and we shouldn't allow ourselves to be either panicked by idealistic, but misinformed, utopians into pumping it all down geologic storage rat holes, or otherwise swindled by special commercial interests into strangling our coal-based industries.
