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We remind you of a fairly recent dispatch, now accessible via:
West Virginia Coal Association | US EPA Examines Use of Coal Ash - in the Netherlands | Research & Development; concerning the US EPA report:
"'Aardelite Technology: Turning a residue into a building material'; United States Environmental Agency; Case Study 20; April, 2008; Aardelite pellets were used as natural gravel replacement for the construction of a housing compound consisting of 120 units for retired people at Dronten in the Netherlands. ... The Aardelite pellets used for this project were made from pulverized coal fly ash made available at a power station in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The composition of the Aardelite pellets was as follows: Fly Ash 79.7%; Calcium Oxide 3.3%; Water 17.0%. The pellets used in the concrete are made using the Aardelite process. The Aardelite technology is based on the activation and control of pozzolanic reactions in the fly ash/lime/water mixture by using the pozzolanic properties of fly ash".
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We were uncertain how to introduce or preface this dispatch.
Some folksy, profanity-skirting quotes from coaches Bowden and Nehlen spring to mind, those seeming especially suitable on this auspicious fall Saturday. But, we decided, naw, if this doesn't earn the attention of the Coal Country press, if it doesn't get some people talking, we're more in need of someone from the WVU Med Center with a defibrillator than we are of a head coach from the stadium with a few gently-spoken and pithy exclamations.
We've previously reported on a technology known somewhat generically as "Syntrolysis"; a process wherein Carbon Dioxide and Water vapor are co-electrolyzed and transformed into a blend of Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen, better known as synthesis gas, or "syngas", a composition that can, through one of a number of long-known processes, such as the venerable Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, be chemically condensed into liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons.
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In a fairly recent dispatch, now accessible on the West Virginia Coal Association's web site via the link:
we made report of:
"United States Patent 6,656,238 - Coal-based Carbon Foam; 2003; Inventors: Darren Rogers and Janusz Wladyslaw, Wheeling and Glen Dale, WV; Assignee: Touchstone Research Lab, Triadelphia, WV; Abstract: A method for the manufacture of coal-based carbon foams from a coal particulate starting material that comprises blending from 1 to about 10% by weight of pitch with the coal particulate before foaming";
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Among our many reports documenting the rather immense value resident in the solid residua arising from our essential use of Coal in the generation of abundant and truly affordable electric power, are several detailing the technologies for utilizing Coal Ash that have been developed by the Wisconsin Electric Power Company, now known as "We Energies":
Wisconsin Energy Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; "Wisconsin Electric Power Company, which does business as We Energies, provides electrical service for over one million customers, primarily located in southeastern and eastern Wisconsin as well as the Upper Peninsula of Michigan".
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We first remind you that, as seen for just one example in:
West Virginia Coal Association | Chicago Recycles CO2 to Methane | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent 4,609,440 - Electrochemical Synthesis of Methane; 1986; Assignee: Gas Research Institute, Chicago; Abstract: A method is described for electrochemically reducing carbon dioxide to form methane by electrolyzing an aqueous solution containing carbon dioxide utilizing a cathode which comprises ruthenium. If desired, solar energy can be utilized to provide the potential for the electrolyzing";
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