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As we've been occasionally documenting, most recently in:
West Virginia Coal Association | General Electric 2010 Hydrogen from Sunlight and Water | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent 7,820,022 - Photoelectrochemical Cell and Method of Manufacture; 2010; General Electric Company; Background and Field: This invention relates generally to an apparatus for producing hydrogen directly from solar energy. More particularly, this invention relates to hydrogen production using a photoelectrochemical cell";
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The Mobil Oil Coal-to-Hydrocarbon conversion process disclosed herein can "result in from 30% to 40% overall reduction in processing costs", relative to other, prior art indirect Coal conversion processes, with the end result being a liquid hydrocarbon fuel.
It achieves those savings in a way which, though not directly stated or specified, also likely reduces the amount of Carbon Dioxide co-generated by the system, both in the Coal gasifier and in the catalytic reactor where the product synthesis gas is chemically condensed into liquid hydrocarbons.
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SolarFuel GmbH - SolarFuel GmbH - Electricity from renewable sources
As we've documented for you now in many reports, the art and science for capturing Carbon Dioxide and then efficiently converting that CO2 into fuels and chemicals is being reduced to initial industrial practice at multiple sites in Europe.
That fact is irrefutable, since it has been openly reported, as can be learned via:
Embassy News 2008 | Embassy of the United States Reykjavik, Iceland; "This site is managed by the U.S. Department of State. ... (US) Ambassador Carol van Voorst recently visited the site of Icelandic American firm Carbon Recycling International, which is taking carbon dioxide emissions and converting it to liquid fuel to be used in cars. The process utilizes the clean electricity in Iceland to convert the waste emissions into the new resource. The Ambassador toured the prototype with American CEO K.C. Tran and Icelandic Chief Scientist Dr. Oddur Ingolfsson";
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We have so far, over the years, presented you with a number of reports documenting that the technology and industrial knowledge needed to convert our abundant Coal into gasoline and other liquid hydrocarbon fuels was being established, or was at least being recorded and claimed, by a company in one of the hearts of US Coal Country at the same time it was being developed and reduced to large-scale industrial operation in one of the sadly infamous practitioners of the art, Germany.
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http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.
In observance of the Easter holiday, we presume, and in the throes of the current shale gas mania that seems to be sweeping through US Coal Country, just as the Dutch were once similarly intoxicated by tulips, and others, at other times and in other places have, as described in:
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia;
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