If this works out as well as the PNNL researchers are projecting, it could be a Big Deal for clean energy. The solvent that was used for carbon capture -- EEMPA -- is significantly better that MDEA, the solvent widely used for capturing CO2 from natural gas. Though it works well for that application, MDEA isn't so good for capturing CO2 from hot flue gases. It has a high water content, making it costly, energy-wise, to regenerate. EEMPA has a low water content, so after capturing CO2, it takes less energy to heat it and release the CO2 to regenerate the solvent for the next capture cycle. That's for a conventional capture and release cycle yielding a purified CO2 stream. If synthesis of methanol can be combined with the solvent regeneration process, things get even better. The outputs of the proces are then regenerated EEMPA and methanol, rather than EEMPA and CO2. In the latter case, the CO2 must be compressed and transported by pipeline to a sequestration site. Big pipelines run into permitting issues, and small pipelines are uneconomical. But if the output from the regeneration process is methanol, the methanol can be accumulated in a tank, and transported by truck or rail car to wherever it's to be used. If the methanol is destined to be burned as fuel, there's a useful way to prevent its carbon content from being emitted into the atmosphere. That's to use it to fuel a dispatchable Allam cycle power plant. Allam cycle power plants produce pure CO2 waste streams. They can be located near CO2 injection wells to sequester the CO2.