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United States Patent Application: 0130206605
We remind you that, as seen, for three examples, in our reports of:
West Virginia Coal Association | US Navy 2008 CO2 to Synfuel | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent 7,420,004 - Producing Synthetic Liquid Hydrocarbon Fuels; 2008; Inventors: Dennis Hardy and Timothy Coffey, VA; Assignee: The USA, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy; Abstract: A process for producing synthetic hydrocarbons that reacts carbon dioxide, obtained from seawater or air, and hydrogen obtained from water, with a catalyst in a chemical process such as reverse water gas shift combined with Fischer Tropsch synthesis. The hydrogen is produced by nuclear reactor electricity, nuclear waste heat conversion, ocean thermal energy conversion, or any other source that is fossil fuel-free, such as wind or wave energy. The process can be either land based or sea based. Claims: A system for producing synthetic hydrocarbons, comprising: (a) a unit for recovering carbon dioxide from seawater, air, or a combination thereof; (b) a unit for producing hydrogen from water; and (c) a Fischer Tropsch synthesis unit wherein ... methanol production is combined with Fischer Tropsch synthesis to produce said hydrocarbons from said carbon dioxide and said hydrogen";
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West Virginia University has established a complete and thorough technology for the efficient and practical conversion of our abundant Coal into substitute liquid crude petroleum.
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United States Patent Application: 0130190165
We're introducing herein a topic and subject related to the productive use and consumption of Coal Ash that we'll only be addressing sporadically, if at all, in the future.
And, we'll have to use a pretty broad brush to cover it, both because of our own personal insufficiencies and because we suspect that the issue is not well known, if at all, among even construction professionals.
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United States Patent Application: 0120043219
Herein, we provide further confirmation of the fact, that, Carbon Dioxide, as it is co-produced in a small way, relative to some natural sources of emission, such as the Earth's inexorable processes of planetary volcanism, from our economically essential use of Coal in the generation of abundant and truly affordable electric power, can be, we assert should be, seen and treated as a valuable raw material resource.
We remind you of our previous reports concerning the process of "syntrolysis"; that is, the co-electrolysis of Carbon Dioxide and Steam, H2O, which results in the production, in addition to byproduct Oxygen, of a blend of Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen; which CO and H2 comprise a synthesis gas, or syngas, suitable for catalytic chemical condensation, as via the long-known Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, into both liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons.
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Audi’s New e-gas Plant Comes Online
As of June 25, 2013, the well-known German automaker, Audi, at a brand-new factory, is using renewable, environmental energy to convert Carbon Dioxide into substitute natural gas Methane.
As heralded in excerpts from the above link to the brief news release:
"June 25, 2013: Audi’s revolutionary e-gas plant, first announced in May, 2011, has finally come online. The plant can create a variety of energy sources including pure electricity, hydrogen or a synthetic gas similar to natural gas which Audi calls e-gas. The plant, located in Werlte, Germany, will produce about 1,000 metric tons of e-gas per year, chemically binding some 2,800 metric tons of CO2. That's roughly as much a forest of over 220,000 beech trees absorbs in a year. Water and oxygen are the only by-products".
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