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As we've noted previously, there exists in the published literature a vast amount of information concerning the ways and means by which a gaseous blend of Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen can be chemically reacted over a catalyst, and be made thereby to synthesize gaseous and liquid, and even solid, hydrocarbons.
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United States Patent Application: 0120328505
We introduce to you herein a concept, and a terminology, that for a long time eluded us; and, to a large extent, still does.
If any of the half-dozen or so United States Coal Country journalists who are the primary addressees of these dispatches ever become motivated enough to simply ask their kid's high school chemistry teacher for an explanation, we're certain the matter could be easily exposed and described to you, the United States Coal Country public, in understandable terms.
That, inexplicably, seems now an unlikely eventuality, and, for sad reasons we won't belabor you with, that simple option is not available to us. So, we'll do our best to muddle through it all, and ask for your patience as we attempt to do so.
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United States Patent Application: 0130144087
We've earlier reported on the Coal and Carbon conversion technologies being developed by the Celanese Corporation, of Texas, which some old-timers will remember to be a better-known company than they seem nowadays to be.
We haven't given them as much attention over the long course of our reportage as perhaps we should have, especially in light of the fact, that, as seen in:
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Recycling Carbon Dioxide to Make Plastics | Department of Energy
We're jumping ahead of the narrative to herein bring you a recent news release - - concerning the fact that Carbon Dioxide is a valuable raw material resource which can be chemically consumed and very productively utilized in the synthesis of high-performance plastics - - from our United States Department of Energy.
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Anyone who hasn't been in a coma for the past four years or so is likely to be aware of what is known as the "Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill" in the Gulf of Mexico, the infamous 2010 environmental disaster.
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