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We've presented you by now with overwhelming evidence that Carbon Dioxide, as arises in only a very small way, relative to natural sources of emission such as volcanoes, from our essential use of Coal in the generation of genuinely economical electric power, is a valuable raw material resource.
We can reclaim Carbon Dioxide, from whatever convenient source, and, via any one of multiple processes, convert it, recycle it, into both liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons.
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For the past more than several years, we have been doing our best to document for you how we can expand the use of our abundant Coal, and the byproducts of our Coal use, to the benefit of our entire society.
We can increase employment in Coal Country; we can free our entire nation from economic enslavement to OPEC; and, we can improve the world's natural environment - all through an expanded, but educated and properly directed, reliance on Coal and on the byproducts of our Coal use.
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This will be a somewhat, even for us, tedious dispatch; but not one, we assure you, that is off-topic.
There is a fair amount of ground to cover; and, we'll traverse it as expeditiously as possible.
We again remind you, that, as seen, for just two examples, in our reports of:
West Virginia Coal Association | Conoco Converts CO2 to Methanol and Dimethyl Ether | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent 6,664,207 - Catalyst for Converting Carbon Dioxide to Oxygenates; 2003; Assignee: ConocoPhillips Company, Houston; Abstract: A catalyst and process for converting carbon dioxide into oxygenates. The catalyst comprises copper, zinc, aluminum, gallium, and a solid acid (which comprises) a zeolite (specified as) ZSM-5. A catalyst composition for converting carbon dioxide to methanol and dimethyl ether. The present invention relates generally to the conversion of carbon dioxide to oxygenates. In another aspect, the invention concerns a catalyst for converting a feed comprising carbon dioxide and hydrogen into methanol and dimethyl ether"; and:
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""Carbon dioxide emissions have been the target of the current administration, attempting to curtail rising global temperatures. One of the solutions from both sides of the aisle has been encouraging development of shale gas, the burning of which produces less carbon dioxide.""
As we've documented for you, in an issue that goes entirely unacknowledged by the press, Shale Gas, even though it emits "only" about two-thirds the CO2 of Coal per unit of energy generated when it's burned, is in many place already contaminated with a large burden of CO2 at it comes out of the ground. In some cases, 30% or more of as-produced Shale Gas consists of CO2, which is simply stripped out and vented to the atmosphere before the product gas is put into a pipeline.
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The University of Kentucky innovation in Coal liquefaction technology we report herein is one which, for us, requires a little interpretation; and, we'll do our best to take a stab at it.
We have made many reports of indirect Coal conversion processes - - designed to convert Coal, first, into a synthesis gas blend of Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen, with subsequent catalytic chemical condensation of the synthesis gas into liquid hydrocarbons - - which are founded on the nearly ancient Fischer-Tropsch technology employed by Germany, during World War II, to make liquid hydrocarbon fuels out of Coal.
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