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As has been documented in the West Virginia Coal Association's reports of Research and Development a number of times, as for one example in:
Coal to Methanol - Eastman & Air Products | Research & Development | News; concerning a report published two decades ago, back in 1995:
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The USPTO link to "United States Patent Application 20150203974 - Catalytic Platform for CO2 Reduction" we included in our 9/2 dispatch "CalTech Converts CO2 into Methane for USDOE" no longer functions correctly in our records of the transmission. As we've noted previously, USPTO links to early publications of patent applications are often not durable.
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United States Patent Application: 0150203974
Herein we learn that yet more technology has been developed for converting Carbon Dioxide - - as we might conveniently harvest as a valuable co-product arising from our economically essential use of Coal in the generation of abundant and affordable electric power - - into substitute natural gas Methane.
The implications of that for creating new Coal Country industries and new Coal Country jobs, while silencing the greenhouse gas critics of Coal-based electricity, should, we would think, be obvious, if anyone actually cares.
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United States Patent Application: 0140305805
Hey, wouldn't it be great if we could - - instead of harassing our economically essential Coal-fired generators of affordable and reliable electric power, or taxing their already over-taxed customers, because of essentially harmless Carbon Dioxide emissions - - harvest Carbon Dioxide, and then use and consume that CO2 in the efficient industrial synthesis of anything, basically, we now drive our entire nation into hock to keep buying from OPEC, or put our groundwater at risk to drill and frack for?
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Carbon Dioxide, the purported greenhouse gas that the suspect enemies of our use of Coal in the generation of abundant and affordable electric power use as one of their primary weapons in their "War On Coal", can be seen and treated as a valuable, maybe even a precious, raw material resource.
And, if we, in the United States of America, especially those of us United States citizens resident in United States Coal Country, aren't smart enough to realize that fact and/or industrious enough to do something constructive about it, our international competitors, some of whom have gotten used to living large on our collective complacency, do realize it and are doing some things about it.
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