http://www.fossil.energy.gov/news/techlines/2013/13005-OSU_Researchers_Advance_Chemical_L.html
Here is the study that 5 million taxpayer dollars was spent on....in a welfare money for scientists scam. Hey they gotta eat too! Who here is so cruel to deny a university carbon capture scientist a living and his grad assistants too? They gotta eat, those beans and eggs dinners get old fast. I see no mention of coal>>>liquids which would make some sense for transportation. All I see is Rube Goldberg BS to capture and compress CO2 and send it somewhere (did not read all the way down) So, as I suspected (before even reading this study) all they are doing is reinventing the wheel but a much much more expensive wheel. All stemming from CO2 paranoia, the great global warming scam and racket. Read James Delingpole for more about shameless green rip off artists with their foreign owned windmill companies despoiling the English countryside these scammers are in the UK. And getting subsidies up the wazoo. Plenty of money to be made on global warming
Dammit Dennis, I've written two books detailing green ripoffs. I've published lengthy and oft cited materials here on FR about green racketeering in the energy business. I stand on the position that most of this green corruption is financed by the tax-exempt "charitable" foundations belonging to major stockholders in the oil and gas business. All I was pointing out to you is that natural gas makes for a lousy transportation fuel and that this is where the work mentioned in this article is targeted, not stationary electrical power generation. My comment had NOTHING to do with the relative merit of what these academics had produced. As I am concerned, it wasn't even worth reading about.
Please remember whom you are addressing before popping off.