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Europe is now establishing a continent-wide industry that will supply the European Union's needs for natural gas by synthesizing substitute natural gas Methane from Carbon Dioxide, as can be harvested as a valuable byproduct from the exhaust gases of Coal-based generators of reliable and affordable electric power.
That fact is made clear via the web site of Project Helmeth:
http://www.helmeth.eu/; "Integrated High-Temperature ELectrolysis and METHanation for Effective Power to Gas Conversion".
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Carbon Dioxide, as we might conveniently and profitably harvest from the exhaust gases co-produced by our economically essential use of Coal in the generation of truly abundant and genuinely affordable electric power, is a valuable raw material resource.
We can harvest Carbon Dioxide from whatever source most convenient to us, and then use and consume that Carbon Dioxide as the key raw material in processes that synthesize, as end products, hydrocarbon chemicals and fuels.
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Coal Ash - the solid residua produced by our economically essential use of Coal in the generation of abundant and affordable electric power - can be seen and treated as a valuable mineral resource.
It can, for one example, be used and consumed through various means and methods as a raw material, in place of the virgin mineral raw materials conventionally used, in the making of Portland-type cement and Portland-type cement concrete. And, as seen for a few examples in our reports of:
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Carbon Dioxide, as harvested from whatever convenient source, can be used and consumed as the key raw material in processes powered by nothing more than simple sunlight - - processes which might be thought of as "artificial photosynthesis" and which require no other raw material but Water - - and be converted in those processes into various hydrocarbons, including and perhaps especially, substitute, fracking-free natural gas Methane.
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We have so far presented many reports documenting the development, by Princeton University scientists Andrew Bocarsly and Emily Barton Cole, of technology wherein Carbon Dioxide, as harvested from whatever convenient source, can be efficiently and productively used and consumed in the synthesis of valuable organic chemicals; as in, for just one example:
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