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As can now be accessed on the West Virginia Coal Association's web site, via:
West Virginia Coal Association | USDOE Efficient Hydrogen for Liquid Fuel Synthesis | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent Application 20120149789 - Apparatus and Methods for the Electrolysis of Water; 2012; Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLC; Oak Ridge, TN; This invention was made with government support under Contract Number DE-AC05-000R22725 between the United States Department of Energy and UT-Battelle, LLC. The U.S. government has certain rights in this invention. An apparatus for the electrolytic splitting of water into hydrogen and/or oxygen (and, a) method for producing hydrogen and oxygen gases from the electrolytic splitting of water ... wherein said electrolyzer is powered by a renewable energy source (and) wherein said renewable energy source comprises solar energy (or) wherein said renewable energy source comprises wind energy (and) wherein said electrolysis method is coupled to a process that utilizes hydrogen or oxygen gas. The method ... wherein said process is a Fischer-Tropsch process for the synthesis of liquid hydrocarbons (or) wherein said process is a hydrogenation process";
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Right up front, we have to report, that, in the course of our research for this dispatch, we stumbled across a public statement that is, of course, so obvious that we all have just pretty much come to accept, without comment or protest, the fact of it. But, on further reflection, as we worked on our composition herein, the true import of it - - in light especially of our own reportage on Coal liquefaction technology as made public by the West Virginia Coal Association, and the ongoing Coal Country public press silence, a veritable blackout, on the issue - - began to loom much larger and compelled us to comment.
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United States Patent Application: 0030113244
As seen in one recent report:
West Virginia Coal Association | California Thermochemical Hydrogen Production | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent 7,960,063 - Hydrogen Production by a Thermochemical Water Splitting Cycle; 2011; Assignee: The Regents of the University of California; Abstract: A novel thermochemical cycle for the decomposition of water is presented. Along with water, hydrogen, and oxygen, the cycle involves an alkali or alkali earth metal based process intermediate and a variety of reaction intermediates. The cycle is driven by renewable energy sources";
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The technology for extracting Hydrogen from the Water molecule, H2O, which we submit to you herein might seem as if it would have little applicability to US Coal Country. And, directly, it might not; although there are some possibilities we'll make note of, and remind you of, further on.
This is a process pretty obviously designed for operation in the United States desert southwest, or subtropical southeast, where things like solar thermal concentrators could be built and reliably utilized.
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From time to time over the long course of our reportage documenting the plain fact, that, Coal can, cleanly and efficiently, be converted into quite literally anything we now blindly, like sheep being led to the charnel house gate, insist upon mortgaging our grandchildren's futures to the foreign, alien nations of OPEC to keep ourselves supplied with in the here and now, we've been able to bring you items of corporate literature that say the same thing as plain as day.
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