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We have previously reported on the USDOE's various Carbon Dioxide conversion technology developments at several of their National Laboratories.
Herein, from the Idaho National Laboratory, "INL", we submit a news release on further development of their "Syntrolysis" technology, wherein Carbon Dioxide is combined with Hydrogen electrolyzed from water to synthesize liquid hydrocarbons.
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http://www.mitsuichem.com/csr/report/pdf/14_15_mk09en.pdf
As we have been reporting, Carbon Dioxide, as arises, relative to natural sources of emission, such as volcanism and seasonal vegetative rot, in a small way from our varied and productive uses of Coal, can be collected and productively recycled.
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The enclosed report "Coal Gasification: Direct Applications and Synthesis of Chemicals and Fuels", all 500+ pages of it, was published, inexplicably, not by West Virginia University or the University of Pittsburgh; but, under contract to our United States Department of Energy, by the University of California in San Diego.
Excepting Alaska and Hawaii, that's just about as far away as you can get from the Ohio Valley aorta of United States Coal Country, and still be in the United States.
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We've documented multiple United States Patents, held both by domestic petroleum corporations and foreign nationals, detailing how Methane can be converted into liquid hydrocarbons from which liquid transportation fuels can be refined.
Of most interest to us, herein, keeping in mind that Methane can be synthesized, via the Nobel-winning Sabatier process, from Carbon Dioxide; and, via hydro-gasification techniques, from Coal; is that the Methane, as in Penn State University's Tri-reforming technology and in at least one US-patented Korean version of Tri-reforming, is combined with additional Carbon Dioxide to effect it's conversion into synthesis gas, "Syngas".
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We've submitted a number of reports documenting Germany's development of Coal-to-Liquid conversion technology earlier in the last century; and, their, and Japan's, use of that technology to fuel the Axis armies during WWII.
We've also documented their open disclosure of their CoalTL technology, prior to the war.
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