German Solar Energy is Converting CO2 into Methane

SolarFuel GmbH - SolarFuel GmbH - Electricity from renewable sources

As we've documented for you now in many reports, the art and science for capturing Carbon Dioxide and then efficiently converting that CO2 into fuels and chemicals is being reduced to initial industrial practice at multiple sites in Europe.

That fact is irrefutable, since it has been openly reported, as can be learned via:

Embassy News 2008 | Embassy of the United States Reykjavik, Iceland; "This site is managed by the U.S. Department of State. ... (US) Ambassador Carol van Voorst recently visited the site of Icelandic American firm Carbon Recycling International, which is taking carbon dioxide emissions and converting it to liquid fuel to be used in cars. The process utilizes the clean electricity in Iceland to convert the waste emissions into the new resource. The Ambassador toured the prototype with American CEO K.C. Tran and Icelandic Chief Scientist Dr. Oddur Ingolfsson";

Pittsburgh 1938 Coal to Hydrocarbon Syngas

Production of gas suitable for the synthesis of hydrocarbons from carbon monoxide and hydrogen

We have so far, over the years, presented you with a number of reports documenting that the technology and industrial knowledge needed to convert our abundant Coal into gasoline and other liquid hydrocarbon fuels was being established, or was at least being recorded and claimed, by a company in one of the hearts of US Coal Country at the same time it was being developed and reduced to large-scale industrial operation in one of the sadly infamous practitioners of the art, Germany.

Israel Uses Coal Ash to Restore Mediterranean Sea Environment

http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/content/59/supplement/S231.full.pdf

In observance of the Easter holiday, we presume, and in the throes of the current shale gas mania that seems to be sweeping through US Coal Country, just as the Dutch were once similarly intoxicated by tulips, and others, at other times and in other places have, as described in:

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia;

The Ivy League Makes Plastic from CO2 for the USDOE

http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/factsheets/project/FE0004498.pdf

First, we remind you of a very recent dispatch, now accessible on the West Virginia Coal Association's web site via the link:

West Virginia Coal Association | Columbia University Converts CO2 to Ethylene | Research & Development;

which concerned:

"US Patent Application 20130048506 - Electrodes for High Efficiency Aqueous Reduction of CO2; 2013; Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York; Abstract: An electrolytic cell system to convert carbon dioxide to a hydrocarbon ... wherein the hydrocarbon (produced) is ethylene".

General Electric 2010 Hydrogen from Sunlight and Water

United States Patent: 7820022

 

We've previously documented, as, for one example, in our report of:

 

West Virginia Coal Association | GE and USDOE Harvest CO2 for Hydrocarbon Synthesis | Research & Development; concerning, in part: "United States Patent Application 20070149392 - Reactor for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Conversion; 2007; Inventors: Anthony Yu-Chung Ku, et. al., NY; Correspondence Address (and presumed Assignee of Rights): General Electric Company, NY; Abstract: Disclosed herein is a multifunctional catalyst system (that) facilitates the reduction of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide while the second catalyst initiates or facilitates the conversion of carbon monoxide to an organic compound. Disclosed herein is a method comprising reducing carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide in a first reaction catalyzed by a first catalyst; and reacting carbon monoxide with hydrogen in a second reaction catalyzed by second catalyst; wherein ... the second catalyst initiates or facilitates the conversion of carbon monoxide to an organic compound ... (and) wherein the organic compound is an ... alcohol (and/or) paraffins, olefins, oxygenates, or the like, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing organic molecules";