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We open with an initial excerpt taken from the document we enclose, via the above link, in this dispatch:
"In the past five years,China has quickly built an industry of coal-based methanol and dimethylether (DME)
that is competitive in price with petroleum-based fuels. Methanol fuels offer many advantages, including a high octane rating and cleaner-burning properties than gasoline."
To paraphrase: China has built an industry that makes their own liquid transportation fuels, at a cost that is competitive with imported oil, out of their domestic Coal.
The "methanol" they make out of Coal, as we have many times documented, can be converted into Gasoline, if wanted, via, for just one example, the ExxonMobil MTG(r) process.
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That the Ash resulting from our essential use of Coal in the generation of truly economical electric power is a valuable raw material resource; one which can be profitably consumed in, and enable, the manufacture of high-performance Portland-type Cement (PC) and Portland-type Cement Concrete (PCC), should, by now, be incontrovertible to all but the deliberately-dense, or willfully-disbelieving, among our readers.
Herein, we document a little more detail concerning just how sophisticated the understanding that Coal Ash is such a valuable raw material resource, and how it can be better harvested and utilized, has, in certain circles, become.
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In a very recent dispatch, now accessible via:
West Virginia Coal Association | Bayer Is Converting Coal Power Plant CO2 Into Plastics | Research & Development;
we made report of a pilot plant built in Europe by one of US Coal Country's most valued corporate citizens, Bayer Corporation; a pilot plant where Bayer are extracting Carbon Dioxide from the exhaust stream of a nearby Coal-fired power plant, and are using that Carbon Dioxide as a raw material for the synthesis of polyurethane, and perhaps other, plastics.
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We begin herein to attempt correction of a perhaps egregious lapse in our reportage on the advanced technology being developed in some corners for the conversion of our abundant Coal, in concert with sustainable and Carbon-recycling Biomass resources, into the liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons we continue to debase our nation's economy, and our own citizens' standard of living and quality of life, to keep ourselves supplied with from those lovable gangs of allied multinational bandits, OPEC and Big Oil.
We have previously reported on the company we bring to your attention herein, but did so in such an offhand and secondary way, in such a cavalier fashion, that we are unable at this time to find that earlier reference among our now thousands of prior reports.
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Bayer Corporation is a company that should be instantly familiar to any of our Coal Country readers in West Virginia, or in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, PA.
They should, in fact, be familiar to anyone who has followed our posts thus far, since, as seen in:
West Virginia Coal Association | Bayer Improves Coal + CO2 = Carbon Monoxide | Research & Development; concerning: "US Patent 7,473,286 - Carbon Monoxide Generator; 2009; Assignee: Bayer Material Science, AG, Germany; Abstract and Claims: A generator ... for the reaction of carbon-containing raw materials and also to an improved process for the production of carbon monoxide gas (CO gas) having a high degree of purity using such a generator. Carbon monoxide gas is frequently produced in the art by means of a continuous process in which carbon-containing raw materials are reacted with oxygen and carbon dioxide ... . Suitable fuels ... are, for example ... coal"; and:
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