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The concerns about the US EPA's misguided focus on the emission of Mercury in the flue gas of Coal-fired power plants continue to grow, as evidenced by a recent, and overdue, spate of expressions of public alarm about their exercises in regulatory excess, such as:
Is Mercury Just Excuse For EPA? - News, Sports, Jobs - The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register; "Is Mercury Just Excuse For EPA; June 24; The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register; Environmental Protection Agency officials say we simply must do something about the growing problem of mercury being pumped into the environment. That's interesting in view of a study indicating mercury emitted into the air in the United States decreased by 58 percent from 1990-2005. Mercury is the primary pollutant targeted by the EPA's planned 'Utility MACT' regulations. Critics of the plan point out it will cost the economy billions of dollars a year and will kill tens of thousands of jobs".
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http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/proceedings/01/carbon_seq/p18.pdf
We submit herein what is, from our point of view, another of what has become for us an interesting collection of documents regarding the true nature of, and potentials for, Carbon Dioxide; just in case anyone does find themselves disposed to assuming some sort of leadership, or at least informational, role in the growing debate about utility MACT issues and that kind of thing.
And, we think it reflects even more of what we have come to perceive as the complete disconnect between the public pronouncements made by the political branches of our United States Government concerning Carbon Dioxide, and what the technical branches of our United States Government actually know to be true about Carbon Dioxide.
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As everyone should by now be aware, the recycling of polyethylene terephthalate, "PET", plastic, from which the ubiquitous soda pop, and other beverage, containers are made, has become a truly big national deal; with some cities even installing collection bins for items made of the plastic on their street corners.
Reclaimed PET can, in fact, be recycled back into beverage containers; but, the necessary cleaning, purification and clarification steps which are required by mixed batches of reclaimed PET consumer products make it uneconomical to do so; and, virgin material is almost always used for that purpose.
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We submit herein what we are led to characterize as an overly-specific Carbon Dioxide recycling technology; and, we are, further, led to suspect that it is so overly-specific because the CO2-recycling concepts it embodies are, unbeknownst to us common Coal-mining folk who are being threatened with Cap and Trade CO2 taxation, and being extorted by OPEC oil, becoming so well-recognized and accepted among the cognoscenti that those cognoscenti are scrambling now to find one way or another to cash in on a coming CO2-recycling bonanza.
We've previously documented numerous times, as, for several examples, in:
West Virginia Coal Association | Penn State Designs CO2-to-Methane Bioreactor | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent Application 20110281333 - Methane Production from Single-Cell Organisms; 2011; Inventors: Paul W. Brown, (Penn State University's Department of Materials Science and Engineering), et. al., Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for enhancing the growth of single-cell organisms, such as methanogens. The growth of the single cell organisms includes consuming carbon dioxide to produce methane"; and:
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http://www.fischer-tropsch.
All the way back in 1980, synthetic liquid petroleum made from Coal was less expensive than OPEC oil.
And, that is as was officially reported, those full three decades ago, by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
In fact, the final statement by the US EPA, in the report we submit to you herein, is:
"Sasol's success indicates that producing synthetic fuels from coal can be technically and economically feasible. The technology is available and the Sasol process - coal gasification plus Fischer-Tropsch synthesis - is the only commercially proven process that wtll produce synthetic fuels quickly, on schedule, and at predictable costs."
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