TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - CHEMICAL ENGINEERING - Preferred Components: The electrolytic cell includes hydroxide cell, bicarbonate cell, 3-compartment cell or mercury cell, and comprises anode and cathode compartments separated by a membrane comprising diaphragm, ion-exchange membrane, cation-exchange membrane or anion-exchange membrane. The hydroxide or bicarbonate cell comprises solvent feed to anode compartment, feed to cathode compartment circulated with hydroxide or carbonate solution, gas mixture product formed at anode, solution having increased bicarbonate concentration product formed at anode, hydrogen gas product formed at cathode, and hydroxide or carbonate solution product formed at cathode. Preferred Process: The hydrogen gas is produced by steam electrolysis, thermochemical process, iodate-sulfate process, or water electrolysis.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ELECTRICAL POWER AND ENERGY - Preferred Method: The method is powered by nuclear power, hydroelectric power, geothermal power, wind power, photovoltaic solar power and/or thermal solar power.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Method: The extraction step comprises absorbing carbon dioxide gas with absorbent solution in gas-contacting device, stripping from absorbent solution through electrolytic cell to obtain mixture comprising carbon dioxide and oxygen gas, and separating carbon dioxide gas from mixture through carbonate or amine scrubber, pressure swing absorber or membrane separator. Preferred Components: The absorbent solution comprises lithium carbonate, potassium carbonate, cesium carbonate, rubidium carbonate, francium carbonate, ammonium carbonate, beryllium carbonate, magnesium carbonate, calcium carbonate, strontium carbonate, barium carbonate, potassium carbonate and potassium hydroxide mixture, and/or sodium carbonate and sodium hydroxide mixture.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING - Preferred Components: The gas-contacting device includes nuclear cooling towers, natural, assisted or forced-draft cooling towers, absorption columns, absorption columns with trays, random packing or structure packing, hollow-fiber absorbers, cooling ponds, spray ponds and/or natural alkaline lakes.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Process: The product comprising methanol is converted to fuel comprising synthetic gasoline by synthesis gas-to-methanol, methanol-to-gasoline, methanol-to-olefins, Fischer Tropsch wax conversion, Fischer-Tropsch or Fischer-Tropsch oil refining.