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An excerpt:
"Commercial technologies to gasify coal, to make chemicals from the synthetic natural gas that results, and to isolate and sell carbon dioxide for oil recovery without letting it reach the atmosphere represent a more sustainable economic and environmental model, Cole (Sharon Cole - Dow Louisiana Site Leader) said, and the company would license the available technologies."
Dow, as we have reported, is active internationally in the conversion of coal to chemical manufacturing feed stocks. We have previously noted their efforts in Louisiana, where such enterprise is supported by Governor Bobby Jindal, and where they would be using lignite coal that is far "dirtier", and has less organic content, that high-quality WV bituminous.
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The article discusses several ways to efficiently make Carbon Monoxide out of Carbon Dioxide.
Then:
"To make a fuel, the carbon monoxide can be combined with hydrogen to create syngas in a well-known technology called the Fischer-Tropsch process, which has been widely used to make gasoline from coal."
As we've been saying: Carbon Dioxide is, or could be, a valuable by-product of coal use.
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From the "National Center for Policy Analysis" (NCPA), headquartered in DC.
An excerpt:
"First developed by Germany during World War II, the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process offers America a chance to utilize its vast domestic coal supply, increase refining capacity, and produce a cost-efficient and clean fuel.
The process can be used to transform natural gas, biomass or coal into liquid fuels..."
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A brief excerpt:
"A Japanese research group saw its way clear to the practical application of ruthenium-rhenium (Ru-Re) supramolecular complex as a photocatalyst that uses sunlight to reduce CO2 to CO, which can be used as a chemical engineering material."
The technologies to capture, and profitably use, Carbon Dioxide are being developed and implemented worldwide. Moreover, those technologies are being refined and advanced to make them more efficient, to reduce the energy inputs needed to accomplish them. CO2 is becoming what it should be: A valuable by-product of coal use.
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Following up on our thesis that CO2 - from both coal-fired power plants and coal-to-liquid conversion factories can, and should be viewed as a recoverable, valuable by-product of coal use, not just a bothersome pollutant, we submit this article.
An excerpt:
"Global Research Technologies, LLC (GRT), a technology research and development company, and Klaus Lackner from Columbia University have achieved the successful demonstration of a bold new technology to capture carbon from the air. The "air extraction" prototype has successfully demonstrated that indeed carbon dioxide (CO2) can be captured from the atmosphere."
Actually, Columbia University's work, though commendable and remarkable, is not the first demonstration of artificial CO2 capture from the atmosphere itself. Regardless, though, it reinforces the contention that CO2 can be not just captured on a meaningful industrial scale, from the atmosphere, but recycled, as in the following:
"For example, the CO2 originating from all those vehicles in Bangkok can be captured in an oil field in Alberta, Canada, where it could be used on-site for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) operations or it could be captured in South Africa to feed a growing demand in that country for feed stocks for petrochemical production."
The technology is "here". All that's lacking is the public awareness of it, and the national will to use it.
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