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We've many times reported on the fact that Coal-fired power plant fly ash can serve as a beneficial and property-enhancing replacement for most, or even all, of the mined, quarried or dredged sand and gravel ordinarily blended into Portland-type Cement (PC), to make Portland-type Cement Concrete (PCC).
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Both Coal and Carbon Dioxide can be efficiently converted directly into synthetic petroleum, into fuels and chemicals ordinarily derived from petroleum, and into synthetic natural gas.
Those facts are irrefutable since, as we've documented many time, that is all being done, right now, though totally unreported publicly to us in United States Coal Country, in other nations of the world.
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Every once in a while in the course of our research - - concerning the now-plain and incontrovertible facts, that, we can efficiently convert, by various means and methods, both our abundant domestic United States Coal and our, some say too-abundant, Carbon Dioxide natural resources into anything and everything we now squander our grandchildren's future prosperity, and our current US national security, to continue buying from our close friends, and enthusiastic boosters of democracy and the American way, in OPEC - - we trip over something that makes us go "Aha! It is the Grail!". (http://www.heroofcamelot.com/legend/holy-grail).
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We've written many times about the 1912 Nobel Prize-winning Sabatier process, wherein Carbon Dioxide is converted directly into substitute natural gas Methane with, as the inventor of the technology, Paul Sabatier, put it in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech: "the greatest ease".
For more details, see our report of:
CO2 Solution Wins Nobel Prize - in 1912 | Research & Development | News.
The Sabatier process, as succinctly explained separately, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, and it's contractors, via:
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Our United States Department of energy has recently improved a process that enables the direct conversion of Coal, in combination with an extremely wide variety of renewable, Carbon-recycling, waste and otherwise non-food Biomass, what the USDOE labels as "plant products that are normally considered waste materials", "into a useful liquid fuel", that is, into a "fuel product"; a synthetic petroleum, as we take it, a "pumpable liquid" that, as the USDOE herein specifies: "can be processed at conventional petroleum refineries".
As a bonus, yes, a bonus, the USDOE's Coal and Biomass liquefaction process co-generates "a high purity CO2 product", from the blended Coal and waste Biomass, along with the "liquid fuel" which "can be processed at conventional petroleum refineries".
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