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Do we really want to, a few years down the road, still be forced to buy our gasoline from OPEC - even after their oil fields have run dry?
Unless we, in the United States, wake up to the facts that Coal can, cleanly and efficiently, be converted into liquid fuels, and so can Carbon Dioxide, we will be.
Herein, we see that Saudi Arabia knows the truth of the fact, that, Carbon Dioxide, as is vented to the atmosphere in copious quantities from natural gas fields and oil refineries, can be reclaimed and recycled, as we have, from authoritative sources, including our own United States Government, already documented to be feasible, into the valuable liquid fuel, and raw material for making Gasoline and plastics, Methanol.
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In further support of our ongoing theses, that: Needed Hydrogen for the Hydrogenation and Liquefaction of Coal can be readily generated from reactions between Steam and Coal; and, that Big Oil and our own US Government have known that to be true for quite some time, we submit, from nearly four decades ago, from well before the concerted OPEC extortions, Persian Gulf conflicts and assorted oil-related environmental disasters we've subsequently endured, the enclosed and attached US Patent.
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We continue, in this submission, in as orderly a fashion as we are able to manage, to chronicle the development, by our local Consolidation Coal Company, throughout multiple decades, of very refined and highly-developed processes for the conversion of Coal into liquid hydrocarbons.
Herein, we see that they devoted some successful effort to overcoming and minimizing the effects of a problem we have previously documented, in processes both for the conversion of Coal and for the Methane reforming of Carbon Dioxide to synthesize liquid hydrocarbons: the deposition of Carbon and Ash on catalyst surfaces with subsequent degradation of catalyst efficiency.
Consol found the solution to that problem in process design rather than in chemistry.
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We have cited multiple reports wherein it's indicated that primary Coal oils, Coal tars, such as anthracene and napthalene, often referred to, along with other, similar, compounds that are derived from petroleum, as "PAH's", or polyaromatic, or polynuclear aromatic, hydrocarbons, can themselves be converted into liquid hydrocarbon fuels; or, hydrogenated and used as agents of liquefaction and hydrogenation for more raw coal.
In fact, we believe the Hydrogen-donor solvent known as "Tetralin", which is specified in WVU's "West Virginia Process" for direct Coal liquefaction, and, by others we have documented, in similar Coal conversion processes, to be an hydrogenated derivative of the primary Coal oil, Napthalene.
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Carbon Sciences, Inc., of California, is a company whose Carbon conversion technology we've previously brought to your attention, in earlier of our reports.
Herein, its reported that they have filed an application for a United States Patent on technology to recycle Carbon Dioxide from flue gas; a realistic concept many others, several of our own US DOE's National Laboratories and Penn State University among them, all as we have documented, have realized and started to take action on.
We will attempt to track down the patent application itself, and bring it to you in a separate dispatch. For now, we close with an excerpt from the attached link, a timely comment that echoes some we have lately made in our CoalTL dispatches:
"Byron Elton, CEO of Carbon Sciences: "The ongoing tragic events involving BP's unchecked flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico further underscores the urgent need to reduce and eliminate our addiction to petroleum, foreign and domestic."
Coal - and it's CO2 shadow - can do that.
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