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Carbon Dioxide can be reacted with Water and made to form Methanol.
That is a plain fact which should by now be evident from, for just three examples, our reports of:
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; A catalyst and process for converting carbon dioxide into ... methanol and dimethyl ether"; and:
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First, we submit a statement made by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, via the document we enclose herein, not long after the EPA was conceived of and, through Executive Order, founded, by that notoriously impractical idealist and environmentalist, President Richard Millhouse Nixon:
"(The) SASOL ... complex is amply proven successful for the manufacture of gasoline from coal."
Not long ago, as now accessible on the West Virginia Coal Association's web site, via the link:
West Virginia Coal Association | US EPA Confirms Coal Liquids Cheaper Than Petroleum | Research & Development;
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We've now documented for you many technologies which enable the efficient conversion of our abundant domestic Coal, and other, but renewable, carbon resources into liquid hydrocarbons; that is, into direct replacements for anything, quite literally anything, we currently debase our nation and mortgage our children's futures to keep ourselves supplied with by purchasing from OPEC.
And, perhaps it would be instructive to dwell on a concept embodied in that statement for a bit.
The phrase "addiction to foreign oil", with the others like it, in all it's variations, although now overused to the point where it's trite, so commonplace that it's almost meaningless and trivial, carries strangely a depth of implication and meaning that bears, should demand, contemplation; especially insofar as it applies to our need for oil from unpleasant and dangerous places like the Persian Gulf, where extraordinary expenditures of taxpayer money are needed to keep the US Navy on patrol to defend shipping lanes, in essence subsidizing Big Oil's shipment of product by supplying security services.
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The information - - concerning the immense value which we should ascribe to the solid residua arising from our economically essential use of Coal in the generation of truly affordable electric power - - we submit herein isn't, as we actually much prefer, a fully-vetted and formal United States patent disclosure of specific technology, or, some other impeccably objective and peer-reviewed exposition of facts and data.
It is, however, the interesting and compelling official testimony of a genuine expert in the field of Coal Ash recycling and reuse, as presented to the United States Congress.
In it, much of what we have been, and continue, documenting for you as a component of our contributions to the West Virginia Coal Association's Research and Development web site is summarized and confirmed:
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In a few recent reports, now accessible via:
West Virginia Coal Association | Bayer Corporation Promotes Carbon Dioxide Recycling | Research & Development; concerning: "The Bayer Scientific Magazine; 'Three Atoms for a Clean Future'; CO2 destined to become a valuable raw material for innovative substances; Together with a group of partners, Bayer researchers are making good progress in this direction, and have found a way to incorporate CO2 into the molecular structure of polyurethanes, thus saving oil"; and:
West Virginia Coal Association | Bayer Is Converting Coal Power Plant CO2 Into Plastics | Research & Development; concerning: "Bayer Material Science CO2-to-Plastics Pilot Plant, Germany; 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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