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Courtesy ThinkGeoenergy.com - April 13, 2012
Written by: Lxrichter - Picture: The George Olah Plant of Carbon Recycling International, Svartsengi, Iceland (source: flickr/ thinkgeoenergy, creative commons)
Yesterday a groundbreaking project saw its opening ceremony at the Svartsengi geothermal power plant in Reykjanes, Iceland. Carbon Recycling International had a full house of around 200 people attending the opening celebration of its plant.
Carbon Recycling International (CRI) is a developer and operator enabling carbon dioxide capture and conversion. The company uses its patented production process utlizing [sic] hydrogen (H2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) to produce renewable methanol which can be directly blended up to 3% with gasoline according to the EU/ EEA fuel quality directive.
The company has been operating a pilote [sic] scale plant in its laboratory based on its patented process for CO2 to liquid fuels. In late 2011, the company commissioned the world’s first commercial scale plant in the world.
The CO2 feedstock and renewable power for producing hydrogen (H2) are both supplied by the geothermal power plant at Svartsengi.
The “George Olah Plant” was completed in cooperation with Jacobs Engineering, Mannvit, HS Orka and the municipality of Grindavík.
The company will procued [sic] about 5 million liters per year, fueling about 2.5% of the Icelandic gasoline market. It uses about 5 MW in power generation capacity per year (around 40,000 MWh per year) recycling ca. 5,000 tonnes of CO2 per year.
As I was told some time ago by the company’s CEO K-C Tran, the Svartsengi is a very unique location. The quality of the CO2 emitted by the geothermal plant and the power that can be used for the operation make this a very special operation. It helps decrease CO2 emissions of the geothermal plant, utilizing green power to create a green fuel. A win-win for all involved. Congratulations to Carbon Recycling International and the team."
___________On April 12, 2012, Dr. George A. Olah, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1994, became
the world's first person to commercialize CO2 to methanol conversion with the
launch of the Dr. George A. Olah carbon dioxide to methanol plant in Iceland. Meanwhile, CO2toMethanol.com, a USMEXenergy.com company, founded by
John M. Kocol, REALTOR®, is the "world's first supplier of methanol made
from CO2." TM
Even a year before the BP oil spill (and currently), John M. Kocol called for replacing our petroleum based economy with a methanol based economy! This historical claim is proven by John M. Kocol as both founder of CO2toMethanol.com which he started a day after the historic "game changer" CO2 to methanol conversion breakthrough at the Singapore Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) which was a year before the BP oil spill, and also with his 6/4/10 Harvard alumni email (copied below) which called for replacing petroleum with methanol:
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Subject: RE: Let's replace petroleum with methanol
From: "Harvard Climate Change" <global_warming@haa.dgroups.alumniconnections.com> (Add as Preferred Sender)
Date: Fri, Jun 04, 2010 1:40 pm
To: "John M. Kocol" <john@usmexenergy.com>
Cc: "John M. Kocol" <john@usmexenergy.com>
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Dear Harvard Friends,
"Because of the BP oil spill, now's the time to
replace our petroleum based economy with a
methanol based economy."
John M. Kocol
CO2toMethanol.com Founder & CEO.
Please send this email to your friends and family.
Sincerely,
John M. Kocol
Cell: 202-543-8331
Skype: jkocol
Email: kocol@post.harvard.edu
Internet: www.JohnKocol.com