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United States Patent Application: 0130338411
We've documented for you a number of times that the University of North Dakota, under contract to the United States Department of Energy, has been developing - - and studying the economics of - - some specific technologies for the direct conversion of our abundant United States Coal into synthetic petroleum; that is, into a substitute for the stuff we utterly squander our national treasure, and put at grave risk our national security, to continue purchasing from the alien, and often inimical, nations of OPEC.
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Herein, we're just submitting more evidence of just how far advanced, almost totally unknown to us common folk in United States Coal Country, the science and technology for converting our abundant domestic US Coal into anything and everything we now squander our national and personal treasures, and mortgage our grandchildren's futures, to keep buying from those bastions of democracy and exemplars of American ideals, the beloved and always-beneficent nations of OPEC, has become.
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http://www.osti.gov/scitech/
As we reported in:
West Virginia Coal Association | USDOE Demonstrates Economic Feasibility of Coal Liquefaction | Research & Development; concerning the USDOE-financed research project:
"Feasibility Of Direct Coal Liquefaction (DCL) In The Modern Economic Climate; Final Report for the period June 25, 2008, through June 30, 2009; U.S. Department of Energy; National Energy Technology Laboratory; Pittsburgh, PA; Prepared by: Benjamin G. Oster, et. al.; University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; Cooperative Agreement Number DE-FC26-08NT43291 (Subtask 3.3)";
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United States Patent Application: 0130256147
We've been documenting for a few years now that we, all we citizens of the United States of America, can kick OPEC out the door as our primary suppliers of liquid hydrocarbon fuels, and stop bringing radium-tainted water extracted from the abyss to the Earth's surface, by turning to a perhaps unlikely-seeming pair of energy allies:
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We often document for you the facts, that, as seen for a few examples in our reports of:
West Virginia Coal Association | Standard Oil 1941 Improvements in Syngas Processing | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent 2,266,161 - Process for Reacting Hydrogen and Oxides of Carbon; 1941; Standard Oil Development Company; Abstract: This invention is more particularly directed to process involving reactions between carbon monoxide and hydrogen, such as the production of methanol and other alcohols, 'synthol' and similar mixtures of liquid hydrocarbons and oxyorganic compounds. This invention, however, especially relates to the manufacture of hydrocarbon constituents containing more than one carbon atom in the molecule by a process involving the hydrogenation of oxides of carbon in which the rapid exothermic reaction is controlled in a manner that the temperature of the reaction does not vary without the predetermined critical temperature range whereby higher yields of products of improved quality are obtained"; and:
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