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Our headline might at first seem to be a little bit of an, perhaps unwarranted, extrapolation.
It is not.
As clearly indicated by one advance excerpt taken from the "Background" section of our subject herein:
"One way to mitigate CO2 emissions and their influence on the global climate is to efficiently and economically capture CO2 from its source, such as emissions from fossil fuel-burning power plants and other industrial factories, naturally occurring CO2 accompanying natural gas, and the air. Once captured, CO2 can be ... used as a raw material to synthesize fuel and synthetic hydrocarbons."
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We've previously documented the body of Coal conversion and Carbon recycling knowledge and expertise being established at the University of California, by scientist Joseph Norbeck and his colleagues.
A few of our previous reports about that work include:
West Virginia Coal Association | California Coal, Biomass and Waste Plastic to Hydrocarbons | Research & Development; concerning:
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We've made previous report of the rather extensive technology that Pittsburgh's Dravo Lime Company, once a much larger manufacturing corporation with broader interests, has developed for the profitable employment of Coal utilization byproducts, primarily in the manufacture of Cement, as a substitute for natural raw materials; some of which conventional raw materials, such as limestone, generate copious amounts of Carbon Dioxide during cement plant processing.
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We've documented the Carbon Dioxide recycling achievements of scientists working at the Gas Research Institute, in Chicago, many times previously.
One dispatch with direct pertinence to our report herein would include:
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We've previously documented the expertise of Pennsylvania's Air Products and Chemicals, Incorporated, in the conversion of Coal, via gasification and subsequent catalytic condensation, into various hydrocarbons and "oxygenated" hydrocarbons, i.e., alcohols such as Methanol.
So recognized is their Coal conversion technical knowledge base that they have from time to time been contracted by the USDOE to improve on the art of converting Coal into various liquid hydrocarbon fuels, as seen, for one example, in our report of:
Pennsylvania Converts Even More Coal to Liquid Fuels | Research & Development; concerning, primarily:
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