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We'll open our discussion of the United States patent on Coal liquefaction technology - - a technology designed to produce a synthetic crude petroleum, suitable for processing in standard oil refineries, from Coal, which was developed by an agency that became a part of our US Department of Energy better that thirty-five years ago, back, fittingly we think, during the bicentennial celebration of our United States independence - - with an excerpt from the very last line of the full Disclosure, after a semi-graphic analysis of the total process costs, including chemical plant labor, for, on an industrial scale, effecting that conversion of Coal into synthetic liquid petroleum:
"Total Unit Cost: 8.02 cent/gal".
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Shenhua shows the way to make gas from coal
Anyone in Coal Country who was ever entertained by the old TV series "Kung Fu", or who got into the old Bruce Lee "Dragon" movies, might have been exposed to, and vaguely remember, squeezed in between all the fancy, flashy butt-kicking those video exercises were really all about, the occasional mention of, and earnest genuflection to, the over-arching spiritual credo all those head-knocking, bone-busting oriental warrior monks and priests supposedly ascribed to:
The Tao.
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United States Patent Application: 0120024196
We've documented for you a number of times, most recently in our report of:
West Virginia Coal Association | Drexel University Formulates Coal Ash "Geopolymer" | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent 5,601,643 - Fly Ash Cementitious Material and Method of Making a Product; 1997; Assignees: Drexel University, Philadelphia, and By-Products Development Company, PA; Abstract: Rapid curing, high strength cementitious binder mixtures are provided containing fly ash and an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal silicate binder ... . Any of the binder, mortar and concrete mixtures can be cured under elevated temperatures to yield high strength products";
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As we've documented and made reference to many times, as, just for two examples, in our reports of:
West Virginia Coal Association | US EPA Recommends Coal Liquefaction as a Clean Alternative | Research & Development; concerning: "Clean Alternative Fuels: Fischer-Tropsch; United States Environmental Protection Agency; EPA420-F-00-036; March 2002; A Success Story (!) For the past 50 years, Fischer-Tropsch fuels have powered all of South Africa’s vehicles, from buses to trucks to taxicabs. The fuel is primarily supplied by Sasol, a world leader in Fischer-Tropsch technologies. Sasol’s South African facility produces more than 150,000 barrels of high quality fuel from domestic low-grade coal daily.
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Over the long course of our reportage, we've many times described, made reference to, and documented the now nearly-ancient "Fischer-Tropsch synthesis", wherein a blend of Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen, originally stipulated to made by the gasification of Coal, as explained for one example in our report of:
West Virginia Coal Association | WV DuPont 1954 Coal and Steam to Hydrocarbon Syngas | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent 2,698,227 - Preparation of Synthesis Gases from Carbonaceous Solids; 1954; Inventor: Luther Peery, et. al., Charleston, WV; Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, DE; This invention relates to a process for the preparation of synthesis gases by the partial oxidation of comminuted solid carbonaceous materials, and is more particularly directed to the preparation of hydrogen, gaseous mixtures containing ... hydrogen and carbon monoxide by the partial oxidation of powdered coal";
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