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As we've recently been documenting, in, for just two examples:
West Virginia Coal Association | Connecticu?t and Honda 2012 CO2 and H2O to Hydrocarbo?n Fuels | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent Application 20120241327 - Materials and Design for an Electrocatalytic Device and Method which Produces Carbon Nanotubes and Hydrocarbon Transportation Fuels; September 27, 2012; Inventors: Steven Suib, et. al.; Assignee: The University of Connecticut and Honda Motor Company; The present teachings are directed toward an electrocatalytic cell" by use of which "liquid hydrocarbon fuels can be generated directly from feedstocks containing only carbon dioxide and water"; and:
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We've many times documented the value of Coal Ash as a mineral filler, both for plastics, as seen, for one example, in:
West Virginia Coal Association | Texas Makes Plastic Pipe with Coal Ash | Research & Development; concerning, primarily: "United States Patent Application 20020040084 - Fly Ash Filler and Polyvinyl Chloride Compositions and Conduits; 2002; Assignee: Boral Material Technologies, Inc.; Abstract: A composition comprising fly ash particles with an average particle diameter of not greater than 100 micrometers and a moisture content of not greater than 0.25 percent by weight. The compositions are useful as both a filler and a colorant in polymer containing compositions, particularly polyvinyl chloride compositions for extruding pipes and conduits. Desirably, the composition is used at a filler loading level of from about 1 to about 80 parts by weight of the fly ash per hundred parts of the polymer. Fly ash-filled polyvinyl chloride compositions containing the fly ash as described meet commercial requirements and are economically and environmentally beneficial";
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We've from time to time tried to alert you to the utter, blatant contradictions between the public presentation of the Shale Gas boom and the stark realities of the thing, i.e., the vast differences between sober US Government geological assessments of the size of the resource and what's being touted by the industry and repeated in the press.
And, we've tried to alert you to the immense environmental dangers inherent in the practice of fracking, especially with unregulated and unreported - - as they, through the Dick Cheney-promulgated Halliburton Loophole, lawfully are - - dangerous, toxic chemicals.
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You have heard it from us previously, as in, for just two examples, our reports of:
West Virginia Coal Association | US Navy and Columbia University Recycle Atmospheric CO2 | Research & Development; which includes information concerning: "United States Patent 7,420,004 - Process and System for Producing Synthetic Liquid Hydrocarbon Fuels; 2008; The USA as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy; Abstract: A process for producing synthetic hydrocarbons that reacts carbon dioxide, obtained from seawater or air, and hydrogen obtained from water, with a catalyst in a chemical process such as reverse water gas shift combined with Fischer Tropsch synthesis. The hydrogen (can be) produced by ... any (energy) source that is fossil fuel-free, such as wind or wave energy"; and:
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We've made a few reports documenting the development of a nascent Coal liquefaction industry in the nation of Australia, as, for one instance, seen in:
West Virginia Coal Association | Australia Coal to Jet Fuel | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent 4,645,585 - Production of Fuels, Particularly Jet and Diesel Fuels; 1987; Assignee: Broken Hill Proprietary Company, Melbourne (Australia); The present invention is related to novel fuel blends and particularly jet or diesel fuel blends, and to a method of producing a range of components of such blends from heavy aromatic compounds ... such as those derived from coal pyrolysis and coal hydrogenation".
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