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First, to get it out of the way, since official United States Patent and Trademark Office links to files in their electronic database often prove unreliable and not durable, here's an independent site record of the United States Patent Application we make report of herein:
Fly ash filler and polyvinyl chloride compositions and conduits therefrom - Boral Material Technologies, Inc..
You'll note the name "Boral Material Technologies" in the above link, and, they are a Coal Fly Ash recycling enterprise about whom we've made previous report.
As seen in:
West Virginia Coal Association | Texas Converts Coal Ash to Cash | Research & Development;
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The United States Patent we enclose in this dispatch, confirming the fact that, on a practical basis, valuable raw material Carbon Dioxide can be converted into Methanol and the substitute Diesel fuel, Dimethyl Ether, was awarded less than two weeks ago, and, we believe, just, within the past few days, became accessible on the United States Patent and Trademark Office's, the USPTO's, official web site.
First, we have several times noted the problems with reliability and durability of links to published United States Patent Applications on the USPTO's web site; and, sadly, we have been alerted that our posted links to USPTO web site records of awarded patents themselves are starting to prove unreliable.
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We return herein to the Carbon Dioxide recycling exploits of a band of accomplished scientists, a group with roots in Princeton University, who have been hard at work in the state of New Jersey to establish not just the technological foundations of a fuels and chemicals manufacturing industry based on CO2 as the primary raw material, but, to reduce those technological foundations to actual commercial, industrial practice.
In several previous reports, including:
West Virginia Coal Association | Princeton Recycles CO2 with US Government Support | Research & Development; concerning:
"US Patent Application 20100187123A1 - Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Organic Products; 2010; Inventors: Andrew B. Bocarsly and Emily Barton Cole, NJ; This invention was made with United States government support from Natural Science Foundation Grant No. CHE-0606475. The United States Government has certain rights in this invention. A method of converting of carbon dioxide to provide at least one product, comprising reducing the carbon dioxide in a divided electrochemical cell ... wherein the reducing is electrochemical or photoelectrochemical ... (and) where the at least one product is methanol, isopropanol, formic acid, formaldehyde, glyoxal or ethanol"; and:
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The day before yesterday, Tuesday, July 10, a key committee of the United States Congress got to hear, straight from what we could and should see as a sacred font of primordial Coal Country knowledge, West Virginia University, the truth about converting our abundant domestic Coal into liquid hydrocarbons, that is, into substitutes for the products derived from natural petroleum which we now impoverish our nation and debase our core values to import from the often inimical alien nations of OPEC:
"(The) industrial deployment of technologies like coal gasification and Fischer-Tropsch, or F-T, processes can produce super clean synthetic gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels that are almost sulfur free, have almost no carcinogenic compounds compared to petroleum, produce fewer particulate emissions, and outperform petroleum fuels."
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We've documented numerous times that Carbon Dioxide can be converted into the more reactive and, thus, more desirable, Carbon Monoxide through the seemingly-obvious expedient of reacting CO2 with hot Coal; the reaction proceeding according to the formula: CO2 + C = 2CO.
Just to again document that fact, it is confirmed, for just one example, in our report of:
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