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http://www.osti.gov/scitech/servlets/purl/1127075
Carbon Dioxide is starting to be seen, virtually around the world, as a valuable raw material resource from which, instead of petroleum-based raw materials, we can synthesize perhaps all, or nearly all, of the polymers and plastics that are so indispensable to all sectors of our modern economy.
That fact is clearly stated as a goal by no less a global titan of the international polymers industry than Bayer Corporation, as seen in our report of:
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United States Patent Application: 0140131192
We were actually researching some improved methods for the conversion of Coal and Carbon-recycling botanical matter and wastes into synthetic petroleum today, when our US Government elected to publish the subject of this hastily-composed dispatch, i.e.: yet another formal description of technology developed, by Arizona State University, in an effort paid for with the taxes collected by our US Government from all of us, whereby freely-available environmental energy can be harnessed to power the conversion of Carbon Dioxide, as harvested from whatever handy source, into substitute natural gas Methane.
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We've reported now many times on the Carbon Dioxide utilization technologies founded, as seen for only the most recent example in our report of:
Princeton University March, 2014, CO2 to Methanol | Research & Development | News; concerning: "United States Patent 8,663,447 - Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Organic Products; March 4, 2014; Inventors: Andrew Bocarsly, NJ, and Emily Barton Cole, TX; Assignee: Princeton University, NJ; Abstract: The invention relates to various embodiments of an environmentally beneficial method for reducing carbon dioxide. The methods in accordance with the invention include electrochemically or photoelectrochemically reducing the carbon dioxide in a divided electrochemical cell ... to produce therein a reduced organic product. Government Interests: This invention was made with United States government support from National Science Foundation Grant No. CHE-0616475. The United States Government has certain rights in this invention. Claims: An environmentally beneficial method of producing methanol by electrochemical reduction of any available source of carbon dioxide";
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We first remind you of our recent report:
which concerned a couple of recently-validated Carbon Dioxide utilization, "artificial photosynthesis", technologies developed by Japan's Panasonic Corporation, such as, for one example:
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United States Patent Application: 0130092549
As we've documented now in many reports, but as has sadly and inexcusably remained totally unreported openly and directly to us by either our commercial press or our government representatives, our United States Government, via primarily, but not only, the US Department of Energy, has been making what could well be - - if we were ever to be informed of them and empowered to utilize the advancements arising from them - - some worthwhile investments with our tax dollars.
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