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The United States Department of Energy confirmed, in November, 2009, that it is now both technically and economically feasible to begin synthesizing the fuel alcohol Methanol from Water and Carbon Dioxide.
Carbon Dioxide, in other words, as it arises in only a small way, relative to all-natural and un-taxable sources of CO2 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, a strategically critical, raw material resource.
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United States Patent Application: 0130192975
We've documented many times for you over recent years that the art and science of harnessing freely available Solar heat and/or light energy to effect the catalyzed conversion of Carbon Dioxide, as is so fortuitously co-produced by our combustion of Coal during the generation of truly abundant and truly affordable electric power from our by far most abundant fossil energy resource, and Hydrogen, as extracted, again using environmental energy to drive the process, from plain old Water, into various hydrocarbons and alcohols, such as Methanol and substitute natural gas Methane, has been evolving and improving around the world.
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We herein reintroduce a technical concept and process for the utilization and consumption of Carbon Dioxide, one which results in the synthesis of a high-value product wherein the CO2 is permanently, and very productively, "sequestered".
And, we regret, that, since we have more lately been focusing, in our reports concerning the productive utilization of Carbon Dioxide, on those technologies, as seen for example in our reports of:
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As should be clear from our many reports concerning the matter, as in, for a few examples:
West Virginia Coal Association | Shell Oil Coal + CO2 + H2O = Hydrocarbon Syngas | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent 7,829,601 - Partial Oxidation Process of a Solid Carbonaceous Feed; 2010; Inventors: Johannes Ploeg, et. al., The Netherlands; Assignee: Shell Oil Company, Texas; Abstract: The invention is directed to a process for preparing a mixture comprising CO and H2 by operating a partial oxidation process of a solid carbonaceous feed, which process comprises the steps of:(Supplying) the solid carbonaceous feed and an oxygen-containing stream to a burner, wherein a CO2 containing transport gas is used to transport the solid carbonaceous feed to the burner"; and:
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By way of introduction, and apology, this will be an overly-long report dealing with a relatively minor component of exhaust streams emanating from Coal-fired electric power generation plants,.
It will be the first of several, related and similar; and, we will explain further on why we feel compelled to address it. As will be seen in one or two reports to follow, there might be some very intriguing and synergistic ways in which it could be applied.
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