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United States Patent Application: 0130331616
We've many times reported on the Carbon Dioxide utilization achievements of Nobel Prize-winner George Olah, and his colleagues, at the University of Southern California, as, for one example, in:
West Virginia Coal Association | Southern California Recycles More CO2 | Research & Development; wherein we documented, that, over the course of a decade, as in:
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https://www.ideals.illinois.
We've made previous reports concerning the work of University of Illinois system professors Richard Masel and Paul Kenis in the development of processes and technologies for the energy-efficient conversion, the recycling, of Carbon Dioxide into, especially, liquid and gaseous hydrocarbon fuels.
Sadly, our too-casual system of labeling and head-lining our dispatches leaves us unable to find and reference for you any of our past reports concerning them and their CO2-recycling achievements, as they are no doubt resident somewhere in the West Virginia Coal Association's Research and Development archives.
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We have, of course, many times documented the plain fact, that, the nation of South Africa has, for more than half a century, been - -
as confirmed by no less than the United States Environmental Protection Agency in our reports of:
West Virginia Coal Association | US EPA Confirms Coal Liquids Cheaper Than Petroleum | Research & Development; concerning: "Sasol: South Africa's Oil From Coal Story - - Background For Environmental Assessment; EPA-600/8-80-002;
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United States Patent Application: 0140031199
Actually, the intent of the Chinese innovation we bring to you herein is to enable the conversion of Coke Oven gas into Methane, with the constituents of Coke Oven gas including not only Carbon Dioxide, but, Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen, as well.
However, in paragraph/item 57 of the full disclosure, we get a true indication and statement of the potentials:
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http://www.electrochem.org/dl/
As now accessible on the West Virginia Coal Association's web site, via:
West Virginia Coal Association | USDOE 2013 Solar CO2 + H2O = Methanol + Methane | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent Application 20130256147 - Solar Fuels Generator; Date: October 3, 2013; Inventors: Nathan S. Lewis and Joshua Spurgeon, CA; (California Institute of Technology); Abstract: The solar fuels generator (as described). Government Interests: This invention was made with government support under DE-SC000493/T-105066 awarded by the Department of Energy. The government has certain rights in the invention. Claims: A solar fuels generator, ...The supply stream .... can also include or consist of a reactant (in addition to water, and, in some embodiments) CO2 serves as the reactant that is delivered to the photocathodes. Examples of the fuels that can be produced using this reaction in combination with the disclosed solar fuels generator include ... methanol, methane, ethanol";
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