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Patent US1905520
We have reported that, in 1912, Paul Sabatier was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for demonstrating that Carbon Dioxide could be recycled, converted, into the hydrocarbon gas, Methane.
We have also documented that, in 1931, Friedrich Bergius and Carl Bosch were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for independently and concurrently developing what were referred to, with conveyed anonymity, as "Chemical High Pressure Methods", and, which were, in fact, techniques for the conversion of Coal into hydrocarbons using indirect gasification techniques, wherein Methane and gaseous Carbon oxides are generated from Coal.
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http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/factsheets/project/Proj410.pdf
As follow up on our two most recent dispatches concerning the US Government's, via the DOE and the EPA, development of a knowledge base and technologies for the conversion Coal, via Methane, into clean burning liquid fuels, we submit the enclosed and attached from the USDOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory.
We have earlier reported on this Arizona project, citing other sources, with respect to their use of algae to reclaim and recycle any Carbon Dioxide not returned to the process stream.
It confirms that Methane, which can be used to recycle Carbon Dioxide, via Tri-reforming technology, into liquid hydrocarbons; or, as we've documented, to improve the processes of Coal liquefaction, can, itself, be synthesized from Coal via hydrogasification.
In this study, it appears the researchers used elemental hydrogen, which can be obtained through the electrolysis of water, for the hydrogasification process. However, other research we've cited previously and will cite further, suggests that both steam and biological matter can be employed as hydrogen donors in such coal hydrogasification.
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http://www.epa.gov/cmop/docs/015red.pdf
Herein, we document that even our own, United States Environmental Protection Agency knows that Methane can be converted into Liquid Fuel, and, by extension, other useful hydrocarbons.
In the excerpt, following, you will discover that they are proposing only to collect the Methane that might inadvertently be emitted from the actual processes of coal mining.
However, left unstated are the plain, now incontrovertible, facts, that Methane can be synthesized via both the Sabatier-type recycling of Carbon Dioxide, and the hydrogasification of Coal.
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Herein is even further documentation that, not only does our US Government know that Coal can be converted, on a practical basis, into Methane, which has quite valuable uses that we'll again repeat following the excerpt, but, it has known about, and was refining, such valuable technology at least until the late 1980's - when most of the other Federally-sponsored Coal research and development programs, as we've documented, seem to have "winked out", as well.
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Carbon Sciences Announces Major Breakthrough to Recycle CO2 Into Gasoline
We sometime ago alerted you to the Carbon Dioxide recycling expertise of Carbon Sciences, Inc.
In this very recent news release from them, they affirm the point we have documented over the past months from multiple, independent and credible, sources:
Carbon Dioxide can be productively recycled, into liquid hydrocarbon fuels and plastics manufacturing raw materials.
The excerpt:
"Jan 25, 2010 16:01 ET
Carbon Sciences Announces Major Breakthrough to Recycle CO2 Into Gasoline
New Process Technologies Also Shorten Time to Market and Reduce System and Operating Costs
SANTA BARBARA, CA--(Marketwire - January 25, 2010) - Carbon Sciences Inc. (OTCBB: CABN), the developer of a breakthrough technology to recycle carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into gasoline and other portable fuels, today announced the development of certain process technologies that will allow for the production of gasoline, shorten the time to commercialization and reduce the system and operating costs of its CO2-to-Fuel technology.
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