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We first remind you of our many reports concerning the US Government-sponsored work undertaken in the Princeton University labs of Professor Andrew Bocarsly, as, for one example, seen in:
Princeton University November 20, 2012 CO2 to Ethanol | Research & Development | News; concerning:
"United States Patent 8,313,634 - Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Organic Products; November 20, 2012;
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https://www.princeton.edu/pei/energy/publications/texts/case_study.pdf
Coal can provide for all, quite literally all, of our nation's energy requirements.
That is:
Not only can we, obviously, generate electricity with Coal, but, we can also concurrently supply all of our needs for liquid and gaseous hydrocarbon fuels - - through known and established technologies for Coal gasification and Coal liquefaction.
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We remind you of an earlier report, as accessible via:
Germany Awarded 2011 CO2 Recycling US Patent | Research & Development | News; concerning:
"United States Patent 7,989,507 - Production of Fuel ... Utilizing Waste Carbon Dioxide; August, 2011; Inventor: Bruce Rising, Florida; Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (AG), Munich, Germany; Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for utilizing CO2 waste comprising recovering carbon dioxide from an industrial process that produces a waste stream comprising carbon dioxide (and, which) further includes producing hydrogen using a renewable energy resource and producing a hydrocarbon material utilizing the produced hydrogen and the recovered carbon dioxide. The process ... wherein the producing hydrogen is done by electrolysis of water using electricity generated from the renewable energy resource, and wherein the renewable energy resource comprises wind or solar energy ... .The process ... wherein the producing hydrogen further comprises producing oxygen as a by-product and using the oxygen in a downstream process. The process ... further comprising using electricity produced from the renewable energy resource to reduce an amount of carbon dioxide to a first amount of carbon monoxide and oxygen. The process ... wherein the oxygen is utilized in the gasification of a carbon feedstock to produce a second amount of carbon monoxide, and wherein the second amount of carbon monoxide is utilized in a downstream process. The process ,,, wherein at least one of the first amount or the second amount of the carbon monoxide and the produced hydrogen are converted to methanol via a catalytic process. The present invention relates to a method and system for producing fuel materials from waste carbon dioxide using renewable resources, and more particularly to a method and system for producing fuel materials from carbon dioxide recovered from a waste stream of an industrial process and hydrogen produced using renewable energy resources. The inventors of the present invention have developed a novel method and system for utilizing waste carbon dioxide for the production of useful fuel materials. In one aspect of the present invention, the present invention provides a novel, efficient, and economical method and system for producing useful fuel materials, i.e. methane, methanol carbon monoxide, syngas, gasoline products, and/or other fuel materials, from carbon dioxide recovered from carbon dioxide-containing waste streams via hydrogen produced by renewable energy resources";
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United States Patent Application: 0140024800
We've documented for you previously, as in, for just several examples, our reports of:
Bayer Is Converting Coal Power Plant CO2 Into Plastics | Research & Development | News; concerning a report about the German parent of our Pittsburgh, PA, Bayer Corporation: "Bayer Material Science CO2-to-Plastics Pilot Plant, Germany; In February 2011, Bayer MaterialScience started a new pilot plant (in the) North Rhine-Westphalia state of Germany for producing plastics from carbon dioxide (CO2). It will be used to develop polyurethanes from the waste gas released during power generation. The Leverkusen pilot plant will test a new process technology on technical scale for producing raw material of polyurethane. ... Bayer aims to use CO2 as an alternative to production of polymer materials from fossil fuels. The CO2 thus acts as a substitute for the petroleum production of plastics. The waste carbon dioxide gas is recycled and used as a raw material in the pilot plant. It produces polyether polycarbonate polyols (PPPs), the chemical precursor which is processed into polyurethanes. The CO2 feedstock for the pilot plant will be supplied from a lignite power plant in Niederaussem, operated by RWE Power. The Niederaussem Coal Innovation Center at the plant, also operated by the utility company, has a CO2 scrubbing system for separating it from flue gases"; and:
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Our headline on this dispatch might be seen as a bit of an extrapolation; but, not too much of one, we think.
Our apologies to anyone who might take exception.
To explain, we first remind you of technology developed by WVU scientists, as in our report of:
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