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We have many times documented for you the fact, that, Carbon Dioxide - - as it arises in only a small way, relative to some all-natural and un-taxable sources of it's emission, such as the Earth's inexorable processes of planetary volcanism, from our economically essential use of Coal in the generation of abundant, affordable, and reliable electric power - - is a valuable raw material resource.
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United States Patent Application: 0140128486
In point of fact, our headline notwithstanding, Saudi Arabia can now make both plastics and at least one gasoline blending component from Carbon Dioxide - - and, from Coal, by the way, as they themselves specify deep in the full Disclosure of the United States Patent Application we submit to you herein.
An advance excerpt from line item "106" of the Disclosure:
"coal, biomass or municipal solid waste is fed to the syngas generation unit. The syngas generated is contacted with a first catalyst composition (catalyst A) to obtain a first product stream";
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We remind you of our recent report, as accessible via:
USDOE and Arizona Coal to Methane + Electricity | Research & Development | News; concerning: "United States Patent 8,236,072 - System and Method for Producing Substitute Natural Gas from Coal; 2012; Inventor: Raymond Hobbs, AZ; Assignee: Arizona Public Service Company, Phoenix; Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for producing substitute natural gas and electricity, while mitigating production of any greenhouse gasses. The system includes a hydrogasification reactor, to form a gas stream including natural gas and a char stream, and an oxygen burner to combust the char material to form carbon oxides. The system also includes an algae farm to convert the carbon oxides to hydrocarbon material and oxygen. ... Government Interests: This invention was made with Government support under DOE Contract No. DE-FC26-06NT42759 awarded by the Department of Energy. The Government has certain rights in this invention. Claims: A system for producing substitute natural gas and electricity, the system comprising: a hydrogasification reactor for reacting hydrogen with coal. ... The system for producing substitute natural gas and electricity ... wherein the algae farm includes material to convert carbon oxides from the oxygen burner to hydrocarbon material and oxygen";
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United States Patent Application: 0140194539
Since the truth seems so out of fashion nowadays, we'll keep this particular exposition of it as brief as we reasonably can, so as not to offend too many people; and, so that everyone can get quickly back to what they seem to truly enjoy, such as amusing themselves with fantasies about the greater glories of shale gas and indulging themselves with impotent rants to their cloistered circle of like-minded colleagues about the evils of the US EPA and the EPA's carbon emission rules.
Carbon Dioxide, in sum, no matter what you've been told, no matter what you think you know, is a valuable raw material resource.
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The University of California, in the persons of Professor Joseph Norbeck and his immediate colleagues, has established an immense and comprehensive body of technology for converting Coal, along with an extensive array of renewable and Carbon-recycling wastes, indirectly, through an initial process of gasification, into synthetic liquid hydrocarbon transportation fuels and into synthetic natural gas Methane.
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