The coliquefaction of Yallourn coal (YL) with polyethylene (PE) was carried out at 400 or 425 C under pressurized H2 in 1-methylnaphthalene or tetralin. In the coliquefaction without a catalyst, the conversion and the oil yield increased by 11−12% as compared to that of expected value from the additive values of respective runs. We considered that free radicals produced from YL coal were stabilized by the hydrogen abstraction from PE during the coliquefaction ... . The addition of a large amount of Fe ... catalyst ... increased the conversion and the hexane soluble oil yield in the homoliquefaction of YL coal or PE... ."

We were compelled to edit the abstract in the extreme, deleting much of what are, for us, far too technical details. Like much of what we have brought to your attention, the full report begs reading by qualified and competent individuals, experts who genuinely have our nation's best interests at heart. Maybe then all of us might finally benefit from the facts, that: Our domestic coal can be liquefied into the fuels and chemical manufacturing materials we need; and, from the synergies such coal liquefaction industry would offer us, including the opportunity to make productive use of some of our industrial and agricultural wastes, we could start to make the most efficient, most profitable, and cleanest, use of the resources we have been blessed with.