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Logan Banner - TransGas has signed on to build the coal to liquid plant
We won't be composing a "CoalTL" report on this current WV news story; but, we thought at least some of our addressee's, those who hadn't seen it, might be interested in the info:
"WILLIAMSON — One of the biggest construction firms in the world has signed on to build the coal-to-liquid plant proposed for Mingo County.
When constructed, the facility that will convert 7,500 tons of regional coal into premium grade ultraclean gasoline, producing 18,000 barrels per day (756,000 gallons).
Read more: Logan Banner - TransGas has signed on to build the coal to liquid plant "
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United States Patent Application: 0130152596
This will be an overlong, rambling dispatch; and, we apologize for that. But, the point we hope and intend to make herein is one we have often repeated; one which, the sooner it's recognized and accepted, will make our lives in US Coal Country, in the entire United States of America, indeed, in the entire world, better:
Carbon Dioxide, as it arises in only a small way, relative to natural sources of emission, such as the Earth's inexorable processes of planetary volcanism, from our essential use of Coal in the generation of abundant, reliable and truly affordable electric power, is a precious, even a vital, resource.
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Totally ignored by all the public hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth concerning President Obama's recent climate change saber-rattling is the fact, that, given technologies like that disclosed in our report of:
West Virginia Coal Association | CO2 & More Liquid Fuel from Thin Air | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent 7,459,590 - Method for Producing ... Derived Synthetic Hydrocarbons from ... Air; 2008; Inventor: George Olah, et. al.; Assignee: University of Southern California; Abstract: A method for producing methanol and dimethyl ether using the air as the sole source of materials is disclosed. The invention relates to a method for producing methanol by removing water from atmospheric air, obtaining hydrogen from the removed water, obtaining carbon dioxide from atmospheric air; and converting the carbon dioxide under conditions sufficient to produce methanol. Thereafter, the methanol can be dehydrated to produce dimethyl ether or further processed to produce synthetic hydrocarbons, polymers, and products derived from them";
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Since our most recent post, as accessible via:
concerns the:
"12th International Conference on Carbon Dioxide Utilization, ICCDU XII, June 23-27, 2013; Alexandria, VA, USA";
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Starting today, June 23, 2013, experts from around the world that have gathered in and near the capitol of our nation will participate in the:
"12th International Conference on Carbon Dioxide Utilization, ICCDU XII, June 23-27, 2013; Alexandria, VA, USA";an event that is in this case being hosted, basically in Washington, DC, by the Pennsylvania State University. As they put it:
"Organized by EMS Energy Institute & Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment, The Pennsylvania State University".
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