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Energy Citations Database (ECD) - - Document #766412
Unfortunately, concerning the headline we selected for this dispatch, a large group of knowledgeable and accomplished scientists, assembled by our United States Department of Energy to assess the technologies and economies of indirectly, through gasification, converting our abundant domestic Coal into a full range of hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals, said, all the way back in 1987, that such Coal conversion technology was so advanced and so effective, and the economic reasons for doing it were so compelling, that it would become "the wave of the future", sweeping us all up in a tsunami of domestic hydrocarbon self-sufficiency by, they opined, 2010.
It's now 2012. Are your feet even wet? Ours neither.
And, it kind of makes you wonder why.
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Energy Citations Database (ECD) - - Document #766412
Unfortunately, concerning the headline we selected for this dispatch, a large group of knowledgeable and accomplished scientists, assembled by our United States Department of Energy to assess the technologies and economies of indirectly, through gasification, converting our abundant domestic Coal into a full range of hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals, said, all the way back in 1987, that such Coal conversion technology was so advanced and so effective, and the economic reasons for doing it were so compelling, that it would become "the wave of the future", sweeping us all up in a tsunami of domestic hydrocarbon self-sufficiency by, they opined, 2010.
It's now 2012. Are your feet even wet? Ours neither.
And, it kind of makes you wonder why.
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The report we enclose via the initial link in this dispatch was just made available online by the United States Department of Energy, although it's official date of publication is December, 2011, and it's official "online" date is May, 2012.
It confirms that Coal can be transformed, right now, into liquid hydrocarbon transportation fuels that are both cleaner and cheaper than those made from natural petroleum.
Some advance excerpts from this official USDOE report:
"It was found that diesel fuel can be produced from coal that has a lower life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions profile than conventional petroleum-derived diesel fuel on a well-to-wheels basis. This requires the sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2) produced at the facility, and methane mitigation practices may be required in the case of certain bituminous coals which are particularly high in methane content."
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We have by now made a number of reports documenting the value of Coal Ash as a "pozzolan", an additive for Portland Cement that serves to enhance the properties of Mortar and Concrete made with that Cement.
As we've also documented, various pollution control measures can negatively impact the combustion of Coal in power generator furnaces, often resulting in a certain amount of Carbon being left unburned in the Ash.
Such unburned Carbon, if present in the Ash in too high a quantity, has a negative impact on the performance and physical properties of Concrete made with that Ash, primarily through interference with the function of "air entrainment" agents blended into the Concrete mix, additives which enable the incorporation of microscopic bubbles of air in the Concrete and thus impart greater resistance to freeze-thaw damage.
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United States Patent Application: 0120144887
A group of highly-experienced petroleum industry scientists says that Coal and Biomass can be combined and converted together into liquid hydrocarbon fuels, in a complete and integrated process that, in the final analysis, emits no, and maybe even consumes a little, Carbon Dioxide.
We have cited the lead named inventor of the very-recently published United States Patent Application we bring to your attention herein several times previously.
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