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The first day of May, that is, May Day, has forever it seems been a day of festival; one traditionally celebrated by the pagans to mark the passing of cold and darkness; and, the coming of a season of light.
It was adopted by the early Socialist, or "Workers", movement in Europe as a holiday of special significance, and was celebrated as such; as, for instance, in the poem:
"The Worker's Maypole", by Walter Crane, which appeared in the Socialist journal Justice, all the way back in 1894, and goes, in part:
"Cast the clouds of the winter behind ye; And come forth and be glad in the sun."
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Our main thesis, over the course of our long reportage, has been that Coal, and, secondarily, both Carbon Dioxide itself and CO2-recycling botanical matter can be converted into anything, quite literally anything, we now allow ourselves to be fooled into mortgaging our grandchildren's future to the noble, democratic, magnanimous and peace-loving nations of OPEC to keep ourselves supplied with in the here and now.
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United States Patent: 4364915
Herein, we submit a technology that was developed specifically for the efficient and economical recovery of Carbon Dioxide from industrial flue gas, so that the recovered Carbon Dioxide could be subsequently utilized in the synthesis of hydrocarbons.
It has been, in fact, cited as a source of Carbon Dioxide by some very recent expositions of CO2-recycling technology, as for instance can be discovered in our report of:
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As we chronicled in our recent report:
West Virginia Coal Association | California July 2012 Efficient CO2 to Methanol | Research & Development;
primarily concerning: "United States Patent 8,212,088 - Efficient and Selective Chemical Recycling of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol, Dimethyl Ether and Derived Products; Date: July 3, 2012; Inventors: George Olah and G.K. Surya Prakash; Assignee: University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Abstract: An efficient and environmentally beneficial method of recycling and producing methanol from varied sources of carbon dioxide including flue gases of fossil fuel burning powerplants, industrial exhaust gases or the atmosphere itself. Converting carbon dioxide by chemical or electrochemical reduction secondary treatment to produce essentially methanol, dimethyl ether and derived products";
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As should be apparent from our many reports on the topic, the science and technology for utilizing Coal Ash in the manufacture of Portland-type Cement, PC, and Portland-type Cement Concrete, PCC, is becoming very well established, and appears now to be growing at an accelerating pace.
That pace is creating changes in the Cement and Concrete industry that we, with our isolated and disabled circumstances, are wholly unable to keep up with and report accurately; that, especially so since some major natural resources companies have begun to take notice and invest in smaller companies who have developed Coal Ash utilization technologies, with resultant changes in corporate names and headquarters locations.
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