United States Patent: 7906559

We've made a number of previous reports on the University of Southern California's Carbon Dioxide-recycling, Nobel-certified, genius, George Olah, and his, and his colleague's, development of an array of technologies that enable the productive recycling of Carbon Dioxide, as collected from whatever source, in the synthesis of liquid hydrocarbon fuels.

United States Patent: 3976443

In an earlier dispatch, now accessible via:

West Virginia Coal Association | Texaco CO2 + Coal = Hydrocarbon Synthesis Gas | Research & Development;

we made report of yet another of the many Coal, and other Carbon source, conversion technologies developed by the once-iconic Texaco, since vanished into the Chevron conglomerate.

United States Patent: 6864596

As we have stated previously, study of the available literature documenting the ways and means by which both Coal and Carbon Dioxide can be profitably converted into liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons - and, boy, howdy, there sure is a lot of it - demonstrates that the most efficient results, in terms of total Carbon conversion and ranges of products generated, i.e., for instance, straight hydrocarbons versus alcohols, are achieved when elemental Hydrogen, as opposed to Steam, is used as the source of Hydrogen in the Carbon hydrogenation reactions.

United States Patent: 5019360

We've now documented many instances wherein technology has been developed, by very credible people and organizations, that enables the extraction of valuable minerals and metals from Coal power plant ash.

Oddly, most such Coal Ash "mining" technologies have originated in the upper mid-west, where they don't mine a whole lot of Coal, but sure do burn a bunch of it to generate economical electricity.