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We have documented several times previously the Coal hydrogenation plant operated by the old Union Carbide Corporation, just south of Charleston, WV, some decades ago.
And, we have cited one or two of the Union Carbide scientists named in this United States Patent previously, in documentation of other Coal conversion innovations resulting from their Charleston-area activities.
Our purpose in this dispatch is to again document that the Hydrogen needed to hydrogenate primarily carbonaceous Coal can be expediently obtained from Water.
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For very nearly thirty years, since 1981, our United States Government has known that we can make Gasoline from Carbon Dioxide, Water and Electricity.
Some extended discussion follows brief excerpts from the above link to, and attached file of:
"United States Patent 4,282,187 - Hydrocarbons from Air, Water and ... Electrical Power
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United States Patent: 3929431
We have documented, in various of our recent reports, that Methane, as can be synthesized, via the Sabatier process, from Carbon Dioxide, among it's many valuable uses, both as a co-reactant for additional Carbon Dioxide, in Tri-reforming processes; and, as a raw material for direct chemical condensation into liquid hydrocarbons via multiple patented technologies; can serve as well to improve some processes of indirect Coal liquefaction, and to thereby enhance the synthesis of liquid hydrocarbons from Coal.
As further evidence of that last assertion, we submit herein another US-patented, three decades-old technology developed by Exxon's Texas R&D facilities.
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United States Patent: 4497970
We have been documenting to the point of tedium that Methane can be synthesized from either Carbon Dioxide, via the Sabatier technique, or, from Coal, via processes of Steam gasification.
We have also documented that other simple hydrocarbons, such as ethane and ethylene, can be similarly manufactured from the same raw materials.
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DOE - Fossil Energy: Innovative Concepts for Beneficial Reuse of CO2 Projects
The enclosed link leads to an announcement by the United States Department of Energy. It details a number of research and development projects, funded by President Obama's Economic Recovery Act, that are to be focused on the recycling, in various ways, of Carbon Dioxide.
We're certain none of this makes President Obama very popular in West Texas, but the projects should be of interest to everyone in West Virginia, and to everyone else in US Coal Country.
Of most interest to us is the plain fact that the Administration recognizes and proclaims that there can be such a thing as a "beneficial reuse of Carbon Dioxide".
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