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http://www.anl.gov/PCS/acsfuel/preprint%20archive/Files/12_3_ATLANTIC%20CITY_09-68_0195.pdf
We believe the essence of the attached technical report from Consol, accessible via the embedded link, might well have been originally reported, as we documented in a recent submission, as "A Synthetic Fuels Process", which was delivered at the 8th World Petroleum Conference, 1971, in Moscow.
No further comment on what should, by now, to all, be the absurdity of that venue, with it's implications for the further dissemination of useful knowledge related to Coal liquefaction science in the United States of America.
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First, keep in mind that "fuel cells" can be any size we want to make them.
In the case of this US Patent, awarded recently to Korean scientists, think of them more as industrial reactors, rather than as compact devices proposed in popular press science magazines as power sources for automobiles and space craft.
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Final Report | Biocatalytic Polymer Synthesis in and from Carbon Dioxide for Pollution Prevention| Research Project Database .
We're sending this item about our much-maligned US EPA along, just in case anyone wants to follow up with the Pitt researchers to learn more about how Carbon Dioxide can be utilized in the synthesis of commercially-useful plastics - a potential we've touched upon a few times in our CoalTL dispatches to the WV Coal Association.
As we have commented in our reports, chemical reactant use of CO2 in the synthesis of plastics would represent more of a permanent, but productive, sequestration of CO2, as opposed to it's recycling into liquid and gaseous fuels, which we have documented and will continue to document.
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United States Patent: 5128003
Given the Assignee, below, by whom we suppose the Inventors to be employed, we'll presume this to be one of the inventions developed, and patented by proxy, for the United States Department of Defense, in their program, which we have earlier documented, to develop technologies whereby Carbon Dioxide and water, extracted from the ocean, can be processed together aboard special ships to synthesize liquid fuels for the fleet at sea.
That might sound far-fetched, but the program is quite real, and is thoroughly documented in the WV Coal Association's R&D Blog archives.
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We have, several times, documented the Coal-to-liquid conversion technologies developed by Consolidation Coal, Consol, now owned by Conoco, and their scientist who seemed to lead the effort, Everett Gorin.
In fact, we have documented the Zinc Halide process for Coal liquefaction in a US Patent now held by Conoco, wherein Gorin is named as the inventor.
Herein, via the above link and following excerpt, we further document Consol's, and Gorin's, Coal Liquefaction expertise, in a technical report delivered, if not predictably, at least unsurprisingly, at a venue almost guaranteed to be missed by the US mainstream press.
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