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in Japan, in addition to Panasonic

http://www.wvcoal.com/research-development/co2-to-formic-acid.html

Japan Converts CO2 to Formic Acid | Research & Development | News; "US Patent 7,479,570 - Process for the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide; 2009; Inventor: Seiji Ogo, et. al., Japan; Assignee: Japan Science and Technology Agency; Abstract: Carbon dioxide and water are mixed with an organometallic complex (of varied and specified compositions). This makes it possible to directly reduce carbon dioxide in water. Claims: A reducing process of carbon dioxide, comprising mixing carbon dioxide and water with an organometallic complex ... so as to reduce carbon dioxide so that formic acid or alkali salt thereof is formed";

other companies in Japan, in addition to Panasonic, have developed technologies for consuming Carbon Dioxide in the synthesis of, primarily and specifically, Formic Acid.

That might not sound like a particularly exciting product to be shooting for, since, if you bother to look up what the current primary uses of Formic Acid might be, one of it's major applications seems to be as a preservative for silage. There is a growing use for it in fuel cells, but those are energy applications somewhat limited in scope, currently. And, as we've documented in a few other reports, Formic Acid can actually serve in some technologies for the hydrogenation of Coal.

Those uses, and possible uses, of Formic Acid aside, there are other and much more intriguing ways in which it can be utilized that have earlier been suggested, but which remained undeveloped.

That is changing.

Some companies are now applying themselves to developing better technologies for the consumption and the much more profitable use of Formic Acid, as that Formic Acid might be derived from Carbon Dioxide.

Formic Acid, as we will see in some reports to follow, is being treated as an energy-efficient intermediate product in the transformation of Carbon Dioxide back into hydrocarbon fuels.

To that end, forward-looking and responsible companies, such as Japan's Panasonic Corporation, are focusing attention now on developing even better technologies, like the above-cited "United States Patent 7,479,570 - Process for the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide", for the consumption of Carbon Dioxide in the production of, specifically and primarily, Formic Acid.

As seen in, and as we attempt to explain in closing comment appended to, excerpts from the initial link in this dispatch to the very recent disclosure of yet another Panasonic Corporation technology for chemically "reducing" CO2:

"United States Patent 8,815,074 - Method for Reducing Carbon Dioxide