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As we've more recently documented, in:
West Virginia Coal Association | USDOE Reaffirms CO2 to Gasoline Technical Viability | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent Application 20130281553 - Method of Producing Synthetic Fuels and Organic Chemicals from Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide; Date: October 24, 2013; Assignee: Los Alamos National Security, LLC, NM; Abstract: The present invention is directed to providing a method of producing synthetic fuels and organic chemicals from atmospheric carbon dioxide. Government Interests: This invention was made with government support under Contract No. DE-AC52-06NA25396 awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy. The government has certain rights in the invention. A method for producing a chemical product comprising the steps of: extracting carbon dioxide gas from the atmosphere; producing hydrogen gas; combining said carbon dioxide gas and said hydrogen gas to produce a synthesis gas; and converting said synthesis gas to said product. wherein said product is selected from the group consisting of fuel, diesel fuel, jet fuel, gasoline, petrochemicals, plastics, butane, methanol, ethylene, propylene, aromatic compounds, petrochemical derivatives, derivatives thereof, and mixtures thereof"; and:- Details
United States Patent Application: 0130281553
Our own United States Government, as embodied in the US Department of Energy, continues to insist, as do we here, that Carbon Dioxide, as arises in only a small way, relative to some all-natural and un-taxable sources of emission, such as the Earth's inexorable processes of planetary volcanism, from our economically essential use of Coal in the generation of truly abundant and truly affordable electric power, is a valuable, maybe even a precious, raw material resource.
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We've made a number of reports so far concerning the very major Coal Country corporate citizen, Bayer Corporation, who, as we've noted once or twice previously, do take their status as such a "citizen" pretty seriously, and make it a company priority to try and be a good one.
We don't know what the correct legal label to apply would be, but, anyone familiar at all with Bayer Corporation in the United States, with their corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh and with a couple of manufacturing sites in West Virginia, among quite a few other places, knows that they are a subsidiary, or operating branch, of the international giant Bayer AG, headquartered in Germany.
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We've documented from time to time that the addition of Coal Ash to Portland Cement, PC, as a component of the mix that comprises Portland Cement Concrete, PCC, can result in a final concrete composite product that has physical properties markedly superior to those of conventional PCC.
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United States Patent Application: 0120231948
As we've explained and documented in several previous reports, such as, more recently:
West Virginia Coal Association | France Efficient CO2 to Carbon Monoxide Conversion | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent Application 20030113244 - Method for Producing Carbon Monoxide by Reverse Conversion with an Adapted Catalyst; 2003; Assignee: Air Liquide (France); Abstract: The invention concerns a method for producing carbon monoxide by reverse conversion, in gas phase, of carbonic acid gas and gaseous hydrogen while minimising the production of methane (and) is preferably carried out continuously and comprises preferably the following steps which consist in: preparing a gas mixture rich in carbon dioxide and in hydrogen (and) reacting said gas mixture, forming carbon monoxide and water vapour, by passing said mixture through a catalytic bed based on zinc oxide and chromium oxide. The invention relates to a process for the production of carbon monoxide by reverse conversion, in the gas phase, of hydrogen and carbon dioxide";
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