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United States Patent Application: 0090194408
As we've many times documented, a number of nations around the world have been at work developing technologies which would enable us to treat Carbon Dioxide as a raw material resource, from which we can manufacture all sorts of organic compounds, including hydrocarbon fuels.
Among those nations is a one-time staunch ally of the US, who we ultimately abandoned to the tender mercies of one of our international competitors.
Herein, we see that Taiwan has continued their work on Carbon Dioxide recycling technologies, even to the point of applying for a US Patent on one of them.
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United States Patent Application: 0090277441
In our report: USDOE Recycles CO2 to Methanol with Solar Power | Research & Development | News; we made disclosure of: United States Patent: 6066187 - "Solar Reduction of CO2; 2000; Reed Jensen, et. al.; Abstract: The red shift of the absorption spectrum of CO2 with increasing temperature permits the use of sunlight to photolyze CO2 to CO. The ... product CO may be used to ... to synthesize methanol. This invention was made with government support ... (from) the U.S. Department of Energy to The Regents of the University of California. The government has certain rights in the invention."
The lead named inventor, Reed Jensen, as we noted in that report, is a scientist who seems to be employed at the USDOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, either by the USDOE, or, by the University of California, who have management responsibilities at the Livermore Lab; and who, thus, seem to share in rights to the invention, along with the US Government.
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We have cited the Axis Coal conversion scientists named in this WWII-era patent many times previously.
Ernst Donath, especially, we have identified as being a key figure in Germany's extensive Coal liquefaction industry before and during WWII, who went on to work, after the war, in exile in the US Virgin Islands, perhaps in partnership with his son, to develop even more advanced Coal conversion technologies, all the rights to which were assigned, through the Secretary of the Department of the Interior, home at the time of the US Bureau of Mines, to the United States of America, up into the 1970's.
Mathias Pier is another of the German Coal conversion scientists we have previously identified for you as having developed key technologies for the gasification and liquefaction of Coal prior to the war.
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Upon reflection, we think the report we make herein might be of some special significance.
Aside from a few obvious points, which we don't hesitate to belabor, the Disclosure of this invention reveals truly significant improvements in the economics of Coal conversion.
It deserves serious study and consideration.
As we recently confirmed, in: Penn State Solar CO2 + H2O = Methane | Research & Development | News; technologies conceptually similar to the 1912 Nobel-winning Sabatier process, wherein Carbon Dioxide can be recycled, and converted into Methane, CH4, exist.
And, such technologies are, in some places, being further developed and improved.
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http://www.ispc-conference.org/ispcproc/papers/685.pdf
We've earlier documented that the somewhat less-than-friendly nation of Iran has been at work on "reforming" technologies, similar to those being developed, as we've many times documented, by scientists such as Chunsan Song and Craig Grimes, and others, at Penn State University, and elsewhere, wherein Carbon Dioxide is reacted with Methane, CH4, and the two made thereby to form a synthesis gas suitable for catalytic condensation into liquid hydrocarbons.
An example would be: Iran Converts CO2 & Methane to Syngas | Research & Development | News;
"Production of Syngas By CO2 Reforming; Alieh Khalesi, et. al.; Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran; Abstract: This paper deals with ... alkali metals ... as catalysts for the dry reforming of methane to produce syngas. ... methane conversions in excess of 90% ... have been achieved."
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