Converting CO2 into oil?
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| Bernard A.J. Stroïazzo-Mougin, inventor of the accelerated cyclefor CO2 energy conversion |
The idea came to me early in 2006 as a result of Al Gore's campaign calling the world's attention to the excesses of anthropogenic CO2 emissions and their impact on global warming.
From here, my thinking was: if CO2 is the result of burning or the oxidation of hydrocarbons and the hydrocarbons were formed at the base with organic matter, mostly plants, what was this vegetable matter or organic carbon formed from? The answer was simple: from solar energy, CO2 and H2O (no plant can live without CO2 and without CO2 life as we know it would not exist). So why not reverse this redox cycle by using the CO2 resulting from combustion to create a reduction process and recover its carbon to convert it into oil?
However, the main difficulty was then the following: forming natural fossil oil took millions of years, hence the second part of the idea - finding a way to accelerate the formation process.
However, we cannot change or avoid the strict physical laws that govern our universe. Nevertheless, we can imagine a conjunction of features that may enable us to accelerate a transformation process. To materialize this idea, I was fortunate to work with a talented team of engineers, scientists and technicians in order to achieve one of the most spectacular changes in our global energy system.
"THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINUOUS CLEAN OIL PRODUCTION USING CO2 EMISSIONS"
