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Since we've continued to document the now-plain fact that Carbon Dioxide - - which, like the unrecognized answer to a prayer, is co-produced by our economically essential use of Coal in the generation of abundant and truly affordable, over the long term, electric power - - is a valuable raw material resource, which can, as seen in our recent report of:
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United States Patent Application: 0120228148
Although it's unlikely any of our direct addressee's are attending to their email this day after Christmas, we thought we would go ahead and send this slightly belated gift along, since it does have some, sort of oblique, tie-ins to Christmas, which we'll highlight with inserted comments as we go through our excerpts.
First of all, our gift to you is one we've repeated many times:
Carbon Dioxide, as is emitted in only a small way, relative to natural sources of the gas, 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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In order to keep this dispatch brief enough so that it can be remain readable, given the technically-imposed space limitations, when it is posted on the West Virginia Coal Association's web site, we will be forced to abbreviate our excerpts from the many links we include in the extreme.
You will either be motivated enough by your concern for Coal Country's, for our entire nation's, security, and future economic and environmental well-being, to follow up and fully inform yourselves by exploring the links we include herein, or, you will not.
If you are so motivated, you will then either be motivated enough to make known to your Coal Country press corps and to your Coal Country elected leadership, respectively, what news it is you wish them to be publishing and what business it is you wish them to be busying themselves with on your behalf, or, you will not.
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We've noted in a couple of reports that residual, un-combusted Carbon in Coal Fly Ash impairs it's utility as a fine, reactive, property-enhancing aggregate or admixture in Portland Cement Concrete.
Such residual Carbon interferes with air entrainment additives, which additives enable the formation of very tiny air bubbles in Concrete that improve it's resistance to freeze-thaw cycles and subsequent and related chemical corrosion. As explained by the Portland Cement Association via:
Cement & Concrete Basics: Air-Entrained Concrete | Portland Cement Association (PCA); "One of the greatest advances in concrete technology was the development of air-entrained concrete in the late 1930s. Today, air entrainment is recommended for nearly all concretes, principally to improve resistance to freezing when exposed to water and deicing chemicals. However, there are other important benefits of entrained air in both freshly mixed and hardened concrete. Air-entrained concrete contains billions of microscopic air cells. These relieve internal pressure on the concrete by providing tiny chambers for the expansion of water when it freezes".
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We first must thank the West Virginia State Journal for deeply appreciated correspondence, in one of the exceedingly rare expressions of direct interest we've received related to our reportage on the genuine, and vast, potentials which exist for converting our abundant domestic Coal and our some-say-too-abundant Carbon Dioxide, on economically and environmentally sound bases, into anything and everything our US political leadership have, for the past half a century, been enabling us to mortgage our grandchildren's future to the alien powers of OPEC to keep ourselves supplied with in the here and now.
We gratefully acknowledge and commend their interest.
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