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http://www.osti.gov/scitech/servlets/purl/1121739
We've presented you now with a number of reports concerning the, in large part US Government-sponsored, development of Coal-to-Liquid technology and industry in the neighboring Rocky Mountain and northern Plains states of North Dakota and Montana.
We alerted you, for instance, long ago to the once-planned "Many Stars" Coal liquefaction project, intended to be built by the Crow Nation in the state of Montana. We can't at this time track down any of our few prior reports concerning Many Stars, a project that appears to have been thwarted and now lies dormant; but, for as long as the web site remains active, more can be learned about it via:
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One might be tempted to call it treason.
Genuine patriots in the employ of our United States Government, as that Government is impeccably embodied in the United States Navy, have laid the foundations for the United States of America to become completely self-sufficient in her supply of liquid hydrocarbon fuels and, thus, to end, to sever forever, her crippling, debasing, enslaving and junkie-like dependence on OPEC oil.
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Looking back, we've made quite a few reports to you by now documenting the plain fact that Princeton University, primarily through the team of Professor Andrew Bocarsly and his former student, now-Doctor Emily Barton Cole, has established the technology by which Carbon Dioxide, as recovered from whatever handy source, can be directly and efficiently converted into a number of valuable products, including several different fuel alcohols.
So notable are their achievements in the field of Carbon Dioxide utilization that, as seen for example in:
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Making renewable energy feasible | UChicagoTech
First, we remind you of one previous dispatch from very nearly two years ago, as accessible via:
Chicago Bugs Convert CO2 into Methane | Research & Development | News; concerning: "United States Patent Application 20090130734 - The Production of Methane from CO2; May, 2009; Inventor: Laurens Mets, Chicago; (Probable Assignee of Rights: University of Chicago); Abstract: A method of converting CO2 gas produced during industrial processes comprising contacting methanogenic archaea with the CO2 gas under suitable conditions to produce methane. Claims: A method of converting carbon dioxide produced during an industrial process to methane comprising: a) preparing a culture of hydrogenotrophic methanogenic archaea in a bioreactor; b) supplying an output gas from an industrial process to the bioreactor; wherein the output gas comprises Carbon Dioxide and between 0.02% and 6.7% oxygen; and: c) wherein the hydrogenotrophic methanogenic archaea converts the output gas to continuously produce methane. The method ... wherein the culture is a substantially pure culture of one hydrogenotrophic methanogenic archaea species. The method ... wherein H2 is supplied in an amount to maintain a redox potential in the bioreactor (and) wherein no additional constituent other than the H2 gas is added to the bioreactor to maintain the redox potential in the bioreactor under -100 mV or less. The method ... wherein the industrial process is coal gasification";
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We've many times documented that Coal, along with many and various sorts of naturally Carbon-recycling biological material, can be "gasified", in a process of partial oxidation or limited combustion, and be converted thereby into a blend of, primarily, Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen, that is, a hydrocarbon synthesis gas, or "syngas", which can then be catalytically, chemically condensed, as via the long-known and still-practiced Fischer-Tropsch process, into gaseous and liquid hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals.
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