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In a recent dispatch, we documented that Coal Ash can be used, as a substitute for the traditional raw materials, in the making of Ceramics; which is an entirely different class of materials than the Cement and Concrete that, we have more than thoroughly documented, can be made in such property-enhancing and energy-efficient ways from Coal Ash.
The ceramics we were talking about, in:
West Virginia Coal Association | Coal Ash Makes Better Bricks | Research & Development; concerning:
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We remind you that we have previously documented the potentials for combining a facility that converts Coal into liquid and/or gaseous hydrocarbon fuels with another, integrated, facility that employs Algae, or other suitable and related photosynthesic microorganism, cultivated in one or another of various types of "bioreactor", to recycle any byproduct Carbon Dioxide arising from the Coal conversion process.
One example of our reportage on such potentials can be accessed via:
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With our profound regrets for clutter and duplication, we are compelled herein to repeat a previous disptatch.
As too often happens with United States Patent and Trademark Office official links to documents in the their electronic library, the USPTO link we included in our headlined report has proven to be not durable, and now links up, almost serendipitously, with another US Patent issued for Carbon Dioxide recycling technology.
We have previously addressed the CO2-recycling technology demonstrated in that separate US Patent; and, since it's again now linked to one of our reports, might address it again.
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We've previously reported on the work of Iowa State University, in the development of technologies that would serve to enable the more productive utilization of the solid byproducts that arise from our essential use of Coal in the generation of truly abundant and genuinely affordable electrical power.
Recently, we saw, in:
West Virginia Coal Association | Coal Ash Reinforced Recycled Plastic | Research & Development; concerning: "US Patent 6,583,217 - Composite Material Composed of Fly Ash and Waste PET; 2003;
Assignees: Iowa State University and The University of Missouri; Abstract: A composite material and method are described wherein melted waste, chemically unmodified PET material and fly ash particles are mixed in a vessel to disperse fly ash particles in the melted PET material. The resulting mixture then is cooled to solidify the melted PET material to form a composite material having a matrix comprising PET and dispersoids distributed in the matrix and comprising fly ash particles";
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The information we enclose in this dispatch centers on a Carbon Dioxide recycling technology, developed by the General Electric Company, about which we've already reported.
That earlier dispatch was published on the West Virginia Coal Association's web site on April 17 of 2011, and is accessible via the link:
West Virginia Coal Association | General Electric Recycles CO2 to Liquid Fuels | Research & Development.
Unfortunately, as too often happens with links to official United States Patent and Trademark Office, USPTO, documents, as we have noted for you previously, the web link which we enclosed in that report, as it is now posted on the WV Coal Association's web site, has not proven durable.
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