United States Patent: 8461216

As can be learned via the New York Times' interactive reportage utility, "Documents: Federal Officials Quietly Question Shale Gas":

Documents: Federal Officials Quietly Question Shale Gas - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com;

we might not have nearly as much natural gas available to us on a genuinely economical basis as the shale gas industry, and their more uncritical aficionados in our public press, would prefer to have us believe.

United States Patent: 8444844

In our fairly recent report:

West Virginia Coal Association | New Jersey Improves CO2 Recycling Technology | Research & Development;

we included information concerning, among other things:

"United States Patent Application 0130116474 - Electrochemical Co-Production of a Glycol and an Alkene Employing Recycled Halide; Date: May 9, 2013; Inventors: Kyle Teamey, et. al.; Assignee: Liquid Light, Inc.; Abstract: The present disclosure is a method and system for electrochemically co-producing a first product and a second product. The system may include a first electrochemical cell, a first reactor, a second electrochemical cell, at least one second reactor, and at least one third reactor. The method and system for co-producing a first product and a second product may include co-producing a glycol and an alkene employing a recycled halide".

http://solutions.bayertechnology.com/fileadmin/user_upload/sat_pages/technologyImpulse/articles/A-Dream-Comes-True.pdf

You know, as we've documented in a number of previous reports, such as, for just several examples:

West Virginia Coal Association | Bayer Corporation Promotes Carbon Dioxide Recycling | Research & Development; concerning and article published in The Bayer Scientific Magazine: "'Three atoms for a clean future'; CO2 destined to become a valuable raw material for innovative substances. Oil is becoming increasingly scarce, and carbon dioxide an ever greater problem for the world’s climate. For this reason, chemists are constantly on the lookout for new ways to replace fossil raw materials and make good use of the greenhouse gas. Together with a group of partners, Bayer researchers are making good progress in this direction, and have found a way to incorporate CO2 into the molecular structure of polyurethanes, thus saving oil"; and:

Bayer: A Dream Comes True

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United States Patent: 8308983

As we've noted previously, there exists in the published literature a vast amount of information concerning the ways and means by which a gaseous blend of Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen can be chemically reacted over a catalyst, and be made thereby to synthesize gaseous and liquid, and even solid, hydrocarbons.