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United States Patent Application: 0100205856
Our United States Government owns, has the technologies in hand, to, as a practical matter, extract Carbon Dioxide from the air around us and, using freely-available environmental energy to drive the processes, to convert that CO2 into any form of hydrocarbon fuel, or plastics manufacturing raw material, we now import from OPEC.
Imagine, if you will, that, one evening, maybe while you're lounging on the sofa and comfortably watching your favorite TV show, out of the night, a gang of thugs bursts into your home, beats you up, casts you out your door into the yard, and begins looting your home, stealing and carrying away all your possessions, everything you had, over the course of a lifetime, accumulated.
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We did, by the way, resist the urge to title this dispatch "Men In Black Ray Guns Convert Coal into Hydrocarbon Syngas". Our subject herein, the recently-published "United States Patent Application 20130213795 - Heavy Fossil Hydrocarbon Conversion And Upgrading Using Radio-Frequency or Microwave Energy", comes to us from two Federal agencies; agencies which our guess is not too many people living and working in the heart of US Coal Country have heard much, if anything at all, about.
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United States Patent Application: 0130252798
Exactly four years ago today, we first made report of the research that likely laid the groundwork for the United States Patent Application, which was published by the US Patent and Trademark Office first thing this morning, that we enclose in this dispatch, wherein catalysts are disclosed that enable the conversion of Carbon Dioxide into Methanol, in photosynthetic reactions powered by visible light.
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SABIC Unit Plans World’s Largest CO2 Purification Plant » Gulf Business
This won't be a necessarily brief dispatch; but, one sadly short on details, since all we have to go on at the moment are condensed news releases from the corporations involved, as those news releases have been regurgitated through various business media outlets with interests in the Middle East and Arabian-area petrochemicals industry.
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United States Patent Application: 0080287555
There is, of course, a great deal of quite recent, though inexcusably tardy, verbal flailing about in the press and media concerning an issue simply stated in:
EPA limits carbon pollution from new power plants - CNN.com; "The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing new rules aimed at limiting the amount of carbon pollution coming from new power plants".
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