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http://www.osti.gov/scitech/biblio/1127211
We bring to you herein a fairly recent publication from the Morgantown, WV, and Pittsburgh, PA, National Energy Technology Laboratory - a component of the United States Department of Energy.
It documents an active program of development by the USDOE, directed toward the improvement of established technology for converting Carbon Dioxide, as recovered from whatever handy source, into fuel alcohol Methanol.
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We have documented so many times that Japan's Panasonic Corporation, who were once well-known in the United States, have developed and continue to develop practical technologies for the productive consumption and chemical use of Carbon Dioxide - - in processes driven by freely-available environmental energies of one sort or another and yielding hydrocarbon products like substitute natural gas Methane - - that we fear our reports about Panasonic's "artificial photosynthesis" innovations might become insufferably redundant.
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We remind you, that, among the many amazing achievements now being seen around the world, with none of them being reported openly and publicly to us here in United States Coal Country - - where the implications of those achievements could be of profound direct benefit to the economic and environmental security of the United States of America, and of indirect benefit to our essential United States Coal-fired power generation industries - - are those wherein it's seen that Carbon Dioxide can be harvested from our environment, or from industrial exhaust gases, and then, in some cases using freely-available environmental energies to drive the processes, that Carbon Dioxide can be converted into any and all forms of hydrocarbon gases and liquids.
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We first note that we have documented a number of times that various technologies for converting Coal into liquid hydrocarbon fuels had been developed at the University of Utah.
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http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/imr/ccps/pdfs/ccr_bu_eval.pdf
As we've documented to the point of tedium, as for one example in our report of:
Coal Ash Concrete More Durable, Resists Chemical Attack | Research & Development | News; concerning: "United States Patent 5,772,752 - Sulfate and Acid Resistant Concrete and Mortar; 1998; Assignee: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark; Abstract: The present invention relates to concrete, mortar and other hardenable mixtures comprising cement and fly ash for use in construction and other applications, which hardenable mixtures demonstrate significant levels of acid and sulfate resistance";
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