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Argentina & Spain Recycle CO2

  
We enclose herein even more confirmation that the potential exists to recycle Carbon Dioxide into materials of genuine utility and value. We don't have to punish our vital Coal-use industries, through Cap&Trade taxation schemes or Geologic Sequestration scams, because they produce it for us.

Wyoming 1970 Coal + H20 = Hydrocarbons

  
Last December, we alerted you to work that had been done by the University of Wyoming, apparently in service to the United States Government, as in their report of "Effects of Solvent Characteristics on Wyodak Coal Liquefaction", which concerned analyses two Wyoming scientists had performed on Coal liquids produced by the Wilsonville, Alabama, government-sponsored Solvent Refined Coal (SRC) pilot plant that operated for a brief time in the 1970's.
 
The University of Wyoming was a good choice for that work, it now seems, since, as the enclosed document attests, they had, by the time of their SRC work, already developed a significant in-house body of knowledge centered on the technology for converting Coal into more versatile, and more valuable, hydrocarbons.
 
And, their work, as documented herein, confirms at least one important fact we have been attempting, in our more recent reports, to emphasize.

Swiss CO2 + H2O+ Sunlight = Methanol

  
We have been documenting the joint development, by Swiss and Israeli scientists, of technologies, similar to the tri-reforming technology espoused by Penn State University, wherein Carbon Dioxide can be reacted with Methane, which can itself be synthesized, via the Sabatier process, from Carbon Dioxide, to synthesize hydrocarbons of commercial value.
 
Herein, we present further documentation of their accomplishments in the efficient, and profitable, though in this case somewhat technically different, recycling of Carbon Dioxide.
 
Unfortunately, as with many of our US oil industry descriptions of Carbon Dioxide recycling, and Coal conversion, technologies, you have to dig deep and look sharp to discover what this is really all about.

Texaco 1975 Methane from Coal

 
We have, among other issues, been regularly extolling the many virtues of Methane, which include that it can be directly catalyzed into liquid hydrocarbons; that it can enhance the productivity of some processes of indirect Coal conversion into liquid hydrocarbons; and, that it can be reacted with Carbon Dioxide, to recycle that supposed greenhouse pollutant, in reforming reactions, which, we have just recently discovered, and will document, have been known of for a surprisingly long time, to synthesize even more liquid hydrocarbons.  
 
We have documented, and will further report, that such valuable Methane can be synthetically manufactured via both the Sabatier recycling of Carbon Dioxide and the steam-, or hydro-, gasification of Coal.
 
Herein, we submit further documentation of that last fact.

Gulf Oil H2 for Coal Hydrogenation & Liquefaction

  
We have been attempting, in the course of our reportage, to document the fact that Hydrogen, which is needed to hydrogenate the primarily carbonaceous compounds of which Coal is comprised, so that hydrocarbons, serviceable as direct replacements for those we now derive from petroleum, can be synthesized from Coal, can be generated as an integral function of a total Coal conversion process.
 
We have also been documenting the rather extraordinary achievements of Pittsburgh, PA's former Gulf Oil Corporation in the field of Coal conversion, to synthesize liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons, which, like those of our local Consolidation Coal Company, were extensive, thorough, spanned decades, and remain almost entirely unknown and unappreciated.
 
In any case, we do need Hydrogen to hydrogenate Coal, if we really do want a non-OPEC, ocean-safe source of hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals.
 
Gulf Oil, via it's P&M Mining subsidiary's accomplished Coal conversion scientist, Bruce Schmid, herein tells us how to get that Hydrogen, from Coal.
  1. Texaco Recycles CO2 to Methanol & Methane
  2. Coal to Liquid, Gas & Power
  3. More US Gov & Gulf Oil 1974 CoalTL
  4. Texaco 1953 CoalTL

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