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We have reported and documented the development, by the United States Department of Defense and some of their corporate proxies, most notably United Technologies and Hamilton Standard, of processes whereby Carbon Dioxide can be recovered from the atmosphere, or from seawater, and then be converted, via hydrogenation reactions, into hydrocarbon fuels.
We have also reported on the University of Kentucky's Center for Applied Energy Research, and their development of Coal, and other Carbon-source, conversion technologies.
Herein, the US Navy and the University of Kentucky, together, report that Carbon Dioxide can be transformed into higher hydrocarbons, as we have from other sources documented to be feasible, using variations of the already-known technologies for converting synthesis gas, derived from Coal, into liquid fuels.
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We've previously reported how the heat energy generated by some exothermic reaction sequences, in certain Coal conversion processes, can be recycled within the systems to improve efficiencies, and thus to lower the costs of the Coal liquids thus produced.
Herein, we again cite Pittsburgh's former Gulf Oil Corporation, and their P&M Mining subsidiary, prior to their amoebic absorption by Chevron, as they describe, not how heat energy can be directly recovered from certain steps in their process for converting Coal, but, how a portion of an intermediate product, Naphtha, can be diverted from the reaction sequence and then used as a fuel to generate any additional energy that might be required.
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On April 17 of this year, the West Virginia Coal Association posted our dispatch reporting: "United States Patent 3,972,958 - Conversion of Coal to High-Octane Gasoline; August, 1976; Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation".
Pursuant to recent discoveries we've made in the literature, and which we plan soon to report on, involving the early development of Coal conversion and liquefaction technologies, using procedures developed by a noted Coal industry scientist, by the corporate predecessors of Mobil Oil, we wanted to again affirm that Mobil Oil, and, by extension ExxonMobil and the entire petroleum industry; and, our own United States Government, know full well that Coal can be efficiently converted into high-performance liquid fuels. And, they have, as herein officially, known that for at least 33 years.
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We have many times reported on, and made reference to, the Carbon Dioxide recycling technology invented a hundred years ago by French citizen Paul Sabatier, wherein CO2 is converted into Methane and Oxygen.
That discovery won Sabatier the Nobel Prize in 1912; and, the underlying process is, as we have documented, both currently being used by NASA aboard the International Space Station, to remove CO2 from the habitat, and being planned for use by NASA on the planet Mars, to synthesize rocket fuel.
However, what we find now just as interesting is, that, two years before Europe's Nobel Committee awarded Sabatier their Prize in Chemistry for recycling Carbon Dioxide, into Methane, our United States Government, in 1910, awarded that very same Paul Sabatier a US Patent for, essentially, the steam-gasification of Coal, to produce both Methane and Hydrogen.
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