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We include in this dispatch two United States Patents, issued to unrelated companies, that demonstrate related technologies which could, we would think, be integrated to enable a better, fuller use of two byproducts arising from our economically essential use of Coal in the generation of truly abundant and truly affordable electric power.
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http://www.fossil.energy.gov/
Back in 2008, just as we first started confirming, through presentation of irrefutable document evidence to an apparently disinterested West Virginia newspaper editor, the stark reality of the fact that our abundant West Virginia and United States Coal reserves can be profitably converted, through long-known, established, efficient and commercially-practiced techniques, into quite literally anything the leadership of this nation continues to allow us all to be extorted by the inimical nations pf OPEC for the supply of, including Gasoline and Diesel fuel, the United States Department of Energy, to their credit, published that same fact, boldly, in a promotional brochure that, by our way of thinking, every Federal-level elected representative, from anywhere and everywhere in United States Coal Country, should have used their franking privileges to have delivered directly to the mail box of every registered voter in US Coal Country.
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http://www.anl.gov/PCS/
Back in 2009, we made brief report of a Coal-to-Gasoline process that had been developed a few decades ago by the University of Akron, OH, under contract to the quasi-governmental Electric Power Research Institute, "EPRI", of Palo Alto, California, as a part of EPRI's "Fuel Science Program".
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We've documented for you in a number of reports that Coal Ash added to Portland-type Cement can, as seen, for example, in:
West Virginia Coal Association | Coal Ash Concrete More Durable, Resists Chemical Attack | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent 5,772,752 - Sulfate and Acid Resistant Concrete and Mortar; 1998; Assignee: New Jersey Institute of Technology; Abstract: The present invention relates to concrete, mortar and other hardenable mixtures comprising cement and fly ash for use in construction and other applications, which hardenable mixtures demonstrate significant levels of acid and sulfate resistance while maintaining acceptable compressive strength properties"; and:
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United States Patent Application: 0120292199
As we've previously commented and noted, the pace of development of Carbon Dioxide utilization and chemical recycling technologies is increasing to the point where we, especially with our sadly limited capacities, cannot keep you adequately apprised of them all.
That, especially since there are evolving technical nuances that improve CO2 recycling and conversion efficiencies and reduce costs that are simply beyond our technical grasp.
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