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Consortium for Fossil Fuel Science (CFFS)
We have previously reported on the Consortium For Fossil Fuel Science, as linked above, it's work on Coal liquefaction and conversion technology, and some of the CoalTL work conducted individually by the universities that compose it: West Virginia University, the University of Kentucky (where the CFFS is headquartered), the University of Pittsburgh, Auburn University, and the University of Utah.
This will be a lengthy dispatch concerning the CFFS, with multiple enclosed links and one attached file, and we apologize for it's ungainly scope.
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Green Car Congress: TransGas and SK EC team on West Virginia coal-to-gasoline project
Enclosed is some additional information on the Mingo County, WV, Coal-to-Gasoline conversion facility, as per our immediately previous dispatch.
Excerpts follow, again without appended comment.
Note, however, that they will, we believe in confirmation of some of our earlier reports about the project, be utilizing ExxonMobil's MTG(r), methanol-to-gasoline, technology,about which we have many times reported, wherein the Coal will be first converted into Methanol; and, the Methanol then converted into Gasoline.
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http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=AD465948&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf
The document we enclose herein, via the above link and attached file, was, at one time, apparently, as we interpret the various statements within it, classified as "Secret" by our United States Government.
Though it reports work completed by the USAF Wright-Patterson Base in 1965, it wasn't cleared for public distribution until 1972.
Which is sort of odd, since it only, in essence, confirms what the Nobel Committee affirmed 60 years prior, in the award of their 1912 Prize in Chemistry to Paul Sabatier:
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In case you missed this news release, the TransGas, LLC, Coal-to-Gasoline conversion plant, about which we much earlier reported, continues on a path towards actual construction in Mingo County, WV.
Full excerpts from the enclosed link follow our signature, without further comment.
TransGas and SK E&C Team on West Virginia Coal to Ultra-Clean Gasoline Project
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We trust that you recall some of earlier reports, wherein it was seen that the major US Department of Defense contractor, United Technologies, and their Hamilton Standard division, have been participating in the US Department of Defense efforts to synthesize liquid hydrocarbon fuels from Carbon Dioxide.
Their work, as we earlier documented, extends even to filing for a United States Patent on a conceptual "Fuel Production Ship", wherein Carbon Dioxide, extracted from the environment, would be combined with Hydrogen, electrolyzed from ocean water, to synthesize liquid hydrocarbon fuels for other ships of the Navy fleet at sea.
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