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We have documented more than thoroughly that Carbon Dioxide, as arises in a small way, relative to natural sources of emission, such as volcanism and seasonal vegetative rot, from our varied and productive uses of Coal, is a valuable raw material resource, from which, like Coal, if we really wanted, we could synthesize liquid and gaseous hydrocarbon fuels.
We have also documented that such knowledge concerning Carbon Dioxide's true raw material potential is, in certain circles, well-known and well-understood; and, that such knowledge might be providing commercial motivation for the surreptitious support of taxation schemes like Cap & Trade; and, for the promotion of outright scams like the sequestration of CO2 in old oil fields, all at the expense of both the Coal industry and of the consumers of Coal-derived products, such as electricity.
As further testament to what we are convinced is Carbon Dioxide's true raw material potential, and, to what we perceive as the deliberate deceit surrounding that potential, we submit herein further evidence that the petroleum industry, and our own United States Government, know full well that CO2 can be productively and profitably reclaimed and recycled.
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As preamble, we feel compelled to briefly emphasize the bona fides of the inventor named in this United States Patent, wherein is revealed - as we have, from other sources, earlier documented to be practical and feasible - a technology wherein Coal can, in a single integrated system, be made to produce both liquid and gaseous fuels, and, as a co-product, electrical power.
The inventor is one Shang-I Cheng, Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at the very prestigious, but, outside more cloistered intellectual circles, not-so-publicly-well known, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, in the Lower Manhattan borough of New York City. Cooper Union, as we learn from the Wikipedia: was "founded in 1859 (and) established a radical new model of American higher education. Its mission reflects Peter Cooper's fundamental belief that education of the highest quality should be as ""free as air and water"" and should be available to all who qualify, independent of race, religion, sex, or social status. For 150 years, the College has admitted students based on merit alone and provided each with a full-tuition scholarship. Cooper is considered to be one of the most prestigious schools in the nation, with all of its member schools ranked among the highest in the country."
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We have been reporting periodically on the Coal liquefaction developments of Pittsburgh's old Gulf Oil Corporation, and their P&M Mining subsidiary, with much of their research having been done under contract to the US Office of Coal Research.
We regret that there appears to have been some, hopefully minimal, repetition; but, the sheer volume of Gulf's recorded work challenges our disabled capacities to organize and manage it all. And, we ask your patience as we proceed, to the best of our limited abilities, to wade through it in as orderly a fashion as is possible for us.
The disarray is compounded by the fact that Chevron, prior and subsequent to their acquisition of Gulf Oil, worked on the development of their own Coal conversion technologies, and obtained even more CoalTL science in their similar merger with Texaco.
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We have lately been reporting on the Coal liquefaction achievements of Pittsburgh's former Gulf Oil Corporation, noting in the course of our submissions that Gulf was, in 1984, acquired by Chevron, who has Coal conversion achievements of their own which we will further document.
We have also recorded, in one or two dispatches, that the old Texaco, aka "The Texas Company", had, as well, begun to develop Coal liquefaction technologies, subsequent to WWII; and, we herein submit further documentation of the Coal liquefaction science they, as an independent company, had worked to develop prior to, in 2001, themselves being merged into Chevron.
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Herein, we find even more evidence that the petroleum industry, and our own United States Government, have known for a very long time that Coal can be converted, one way or another, into liquid hydrocarbons.
As with other Coal conversion technologies that were developed on all sides, as we've reported, in the decade leading up to WWII, the technology disclosed herein would likely be uneconomical even in today's OPEC-influenced world.
In fashion similar to other Coal liquefaction processes from the same era, the complicated process described would likely demand much more energy input than the output could justify.
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