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United States Patent Application: 0110155971
As seen most recently in our report of:
West Virginia Coal Association | USDOE Sunlight Converts CO2 into Methane | Research & Development; concerning: "US Patent Application 20130079577 - Synthesis of Photocatalysts for Solar Fuel Generation; 2013; Inventor: Brian Ingram, et. al., IL and TN; Assignee: UChicago Argonne, LLC, Chicago; Abstract: In one preferred embodiment, a photocatalyst for conversion of carbon dioxide and water to a hydrocarbon and oxygen ... . Government Interests: The United States Government has rights in this invention pursuant to Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357 between the United States Government and UChicago Argonne, LLC representing Argonne National Laboratory. Claims: A photocatalyst for conversion of carbon dioxide and water into a hydrocarbon and oxygen (and, a) method of converting carbon dioxide and water into a hydrocarbon and oxygen comprising exposing a gaseous mixture of carbon dioxide and water to sun light in the presence of a photocatalyst ... . This invention relates to the energy efficient photocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide gas and water vapor to methane and other hydrocarbon fuels, particularly promoted by sunlight";
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We've documented for you in several reports the development, some of it supported by the US Government, by scientists at New Jersey's Princeton University, of technologies wherein Carbon Dioxide, as reclaimed from whatever handy source, can be converted efficiently into, among other things, fuel alcohols.
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United States Patent Application: 0130175180
We've many times documented for you how important a ready supply of elemental, molecular Hydrogen could be to us.
For instance, as seen for only one example in our report of:
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We've lately begun to document for you how the already immense value of Coal can be maximized in an integrated facility that, through an initial process of Coal gasification, is capable both of generating electricity and of synthesizing hydrocarbon compounds; and, of varying the amounts of either electricity or hydrocarbons produced in response to changing demands.
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United States Patent Application: 0090042998
Four years ago, in a report now accessible via:
West Virginia Coal Association | CO2 Solution Wins Nobel Prize - in 1912 | Research & Development; concerning: "Paul Sabatier" winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and his Nobel Lecture, delivered on December 11, 1912, in which he related: "During the period 1901 to 1905, together with Senderens, I showed that nickel is very suitable for the direct hydrogenation of nitriles into amines and, no less important, of aldehydes and acetones into corresponding alcohols. Carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide are both changed immediately into methane, which can therefore be synthesized with the greatest ease";
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