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This past June, we began redressing some slights in our reportage, concerning the development of technologies that enable the efficient conversion of Carbon Dioxide, as reclaimed from whatever handy domestic US source, into the sorts of things, i.e., liquid hydrocarbon fuels, we US citizens, with a decorously minimal amount of sniveling, fork over the better part of five bucks a gallon for to OPEC and their multinational Big Oil front men.
The sheiks can't afford to buy enough toe rings for their harem girls, we guess; at least while their funding jihad. Nor, we suppose, can the gold plating on the bumpers of all the cowboys' Cadillacs ever be thick enough. And, we hard-working stiffs in US Coal Country do understand how tough it is for everyone to get by in the style to which they've become accustomed; we are always willing, it seems, to share what we have in order to ensure that they are able to do so.
Even with Uncle Sam.
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We've many times documented that Coal Ash can be productively consumed in the making of cement and concrete that are superior in many ways to what are officially known as "Ordinary Portland Cement", "OPC", and Ordinary Portland Cement Concrete.
There is, in fact, a rather vast body of scientific literature "out there" demonstrating the truth of the matter; but, due both to technical expositions of the chemistry involved that are beyond our limited capacities to fully understand and accurately summarize for you, and, to legal constraints involving copyright laws, there is much about the value of Coal Ash we must leave unsaid.
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We earlier reported that Saudi Arabia, in concert with at least one scientist in Texas, had devised a way to convert Carbon Dioxide, reclaimed from whatever source, into what would be an endless supply of, essentially, in the final analysis, petroleum.
Actually, the crown jewel of OPEC's turban, and their Texan collaborator, invented a process that converts Carbon Dioxide into hydrocarbon synthesis gas, which can then be catalytically and chemically condensed, through a number of known and practiced chemical processes, such as the venerable Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, into a full range of liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons that have been conventionally derived from petroleum.
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We return herein to a subject, and it's potentials, we've touched on in a few earlier reports, as in, for just one example:
West Virginia Coal Association | Bayer Is Converting Coal Power Plant CO2 Into Plastics | Research & Development; which centered on the article: "Bayer Material Science CO2-to-Plastics Pilot Plant; In February 2011, Bayer MaterialScience started a new pilot plant (in the) North Rhine-Westphalia state of Germany for producing plastics from carbon dioxide (CO2). It will be used to develop polyurethanes from the waste gas released during power generation".
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We've noted a couple of times, over the long course of our reportage, that some seemingly-conventional petroleum refining techniques appear actually to have been founded on processes developed originally and long ago to facilitate the conversion of Coal into gaseous and liquid hydrocarbon fuels.
In fact, although due to technical difficulties on our end we can't at the moment track the links down for you, we long ago reported on the development of some pretty sophisticated Coal gasification processes in the late 1800's, one even calling for the use of solar energy to help effect the heating of the Coal.
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