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0002533710 METHOD OF OBTAINING METHANE FROM ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE
Carbon Dioxide, as is co-produced in only a small way - - relative to some all-natural, un-taxable, and totally non-political sources of it's emission, such as the Earth's inexorable processes of planetary volcanism - - by our economically essential use of Coal in the generation of abundant, affordable and reliable electric power, can be seen and treated as a valuable raw material resource.
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Is truth sometimes stranger than fiction?
Believe it or not, the United States Environmental Protection Agency has recently begun to recommend the solar-powered, or other renewable energy-driven, conversion of Carbon Dioxide, as recovered from whatever handy source, into hydrocarbon fuels; that, following research funded in part by, and performed in partnership with, the Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization (CCCU) at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
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We've many times documented that Coal can be gasified; that is, partially combusted or partially oxidized; and, that the resulting mix of gases, primarily Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen, known as synthesis gas, or "syngas", can then be catalytically, chemically condensed into, depending in part upon the mix of catalysts used, virtually any and all types of liquid and gaseous hydrocarbon fuels.
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We regret if we sound weary. But, by now we have documented so many times that Carbon Dioxide, as harvested from whatever convenient source, can - - in processes which themselves can be powered by freely available but otherwise lower-grade, so-called "renewable", environmental energy, such as sunlight, and, which processes have been developed even by scientists employed by the United States Government - - be consumed in the synthesis of anything and everything, any hydrocarbon fuel or chemical, we now sell our nation out to continue buying from OPEC, that it beggars our belief that such facts aren't being publicly and openly acknowledged as a matter of course by our press and by our elected government representatives; and, that public plans to implement such CO2 utilization on a broad-scale industrial basis aren't moving forward at a brisk pace, while all the talk of Carbon Dioxide geologic sequestration nonsense and the carbon tax extortion of our economically essential Coal-fired generators of electric power and their customers is deep-sixed.
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We've many times documented that Coal can, even in combination with renewable and carbon-recycling organic wastes, like sewage treatment plant sludge and products of agriculture, as for just one example seen in our report of:
Standard Oil Co-Gasifies Coal & Carbon-Recycling Biomass | Research & Development | News; concerning: "United States Patent 2,633,416 - Gasification of Carbonaceous Solids; 1953; Inventor: Edward Gornowski and Karl Nelson, NJ; Assignee: Standard Oil Development Company; Abstract: The present invention relates to the production of gases from non-gaseous carbonaceous materials and, more particularly, to the production of gas mixtures containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen ... from such solid carbonaceous materials as ... various coals (and) cellulosic materials";
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