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We first noticed the exposition of Saudi Arabian CO2-to-fuel technology we bring to you herein back when it was "just" a United States Patent Application.
And, even though, as seen for one example in:
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United States Patent: 4099383
We've documented a number of times, over the long course of our reportage, that it is perfectly feasible to co-generate both hydrocarbon fuels or chemicals of various sorts and electrical power, in the same industrial facility, from Coal.
Such "co-generation" facilities rely on indirect methods of converting Coal into hydrocarbons, wherein Coal is first gasified, through a process of partial oxidation, or limited combustion, and made to form a blend of Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen, that is, "synthesis gas", or "syngas", which syngas can be chemically, catalytically condensed, as via the long-known Fischer-Tropsch synthesis for just one example, into a full range of both liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons.
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http://www.osti.gov/scitech/biblio/1041046
We have, over the long course of our reportage, suggested a number of times that proposals for the mandated geologic "sequestration" of Carbon Dioxide, as extracted from the exhaust gases of our economically essential Coal-fired power plants, and as conducted all at the expense of the consumers of Coal-based electrical power, constitute a scam, a deceptive taking of a valuable raw material resource.
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As we've documented for you now to the point of tedium, Coal can be converted indirectly into liquid hydrocarbon fuels via the nearly-ancient Fischer-Tropsch process, wherein Coal is first partially oxidized, or incompletely combusted, "gasified', to produce a mixture of Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen, "synthesis gas", or "syngas", which syngas is then passed over and through any one of a number of known catalysts and is thereby chemically condensed into liquid and/or gaseous hydrocarbons.
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We have, of course, many times documented the fact that the nation of South Africa, via the company "Sasol", which some report to mean "South Africa Synthetic Oil Limited", has been quite successfully converting Coal into liquid fuels for transportation for more than half a century.
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