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As seen very currently in:
OSU Research Promising For Future of Coal - News, Sports, Jobs - The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register; concerning: "A 'dramatically different' energy generating process developed at Ohio State University could keep Ohio Valley residents working in local coal mines for generations to come. A research team led by Professor Liang-Shih Fan is using Coal-Direct Chemical Looping to generate electricity and capture 99 percent of the carbon dioxide that results from the process (and) American coal could continue to be a viable fuel for decades to come, even under strict federal limits on carbon emissions ... . Since 99 percent of the carbon dioxide produced can be captured, Fan said it can be used for ... chemical synthesis";
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Although we can't seem to find the specific report, or reports, in the West Virginia Coal Association Research and Development Archives, we long ago, on more than one occasion we believe, made reference to, and documented, the fact that Acetylene gas - - which should be familiar to every old country boy who ever had to, before the days of simple and cheap electric arc welders, use a torch to braze on a sheet metal patch over a rust hole on his work truck or slice through a padlock he lost the key to - - is a hydrocarbon which has traditionally, whether it was obvious or not, been made, indirectly, from Coal.
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This dispatch will likely seem enormously cluttered and redundant; but, given the subject matter and it's open contradictions of popular concepts, and it's refutation of generally accepted and unquestioned public "knowledge", we are compelled to be as thorough and meticulous as possible.
In sum: Carbon Dioxide - - as it arises in only a very small way relative to natural sources of emission, such as the Earth's inexorable processes of planetary volcanism, from our economically essential use of Coal in the generation of abundant and truly affordable electric power - - is a valuable raw material resource.
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"“…this has been our pattern. We go from shock to trance...oil prices go up, gas prices at the pump go up, everybody goes into a flurry of activity. And then the prices go back down and suddenly we act like it's not important, and we start… filling up our SUVs again. And, as a consequence, we never make any progress. It's part of the addiction, all right…that has to be broken. Now is the time to break it.' President-elect Barack Obama, “'60 Minutes' interview, November 16, 2008."
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We know we've beaten it to death, but, the inorganic mineral residues left behind by our use of the carbon content in Coal, for whatever purpose, constitute a valuable resource.
As we documented, for just one example, in our report of:
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