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Bill Text - 112th Congress (2011-2012) - THOMAS (Library of Congress)
More than a year ago, one of West Virginia's own representatives to the United States Congress, from West Virginia's 2nd Congressional District, the Honorable Shelley Moore Capito:
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in a move, that, insofar as we have been able to determine, went entirely unheralded by our Coal Country press, went to bat for West Virginia, for the security of the United States of America, and, for Coal.
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In our recent report:
West Virginia Coal Association | United Technologies Converts CO2 into Hydrocarbons | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent 4,921,586 - Electrolysis Cell and Method of Use; 1990; Assignee: United Technologies Corporation; Abstract: The present invention discloses an improved solid polymer electrolysis cell for the reduction of carbon dioxide. The improvement being the use of a cathode having a metal phthalocyanine catalyst which results in the suppression of the formation of hydrogen during the reduction process and the subsequent improved conversion efficiency for carbon dioxide. A method for reducing carbon dioxide in an electrolysis cell having an anode a cathode and a solid polymer electrolyte comprising; contacting the anode with a hydrogen containing material, converting said hydrogen containing material to hydrogen ions (and) causing the carbon dioxide to react with the hydrogen ions to form organic compounds ... (including) formic acid ... (,) methanol and formaldehyde ... or methane";
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http://www.nrmca.org/research/
Aside from the potentials for actually using the solid byproducts of Coal combustion as raw materials for making of Portland-type Cement, as demonstrated, for just one example, in our report of:
West Virginia Coal Association | Pittsburgh Converts Coal Ash and Flue Gas into Cement | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent 5,766,339 - Producing Cement from a Flue Gas Desulfurization Waste; 1998; Dravo Lime Company, Pittsburgh; Cement is produced (from) a moist mixture of a flue gas desulfurization process waste product (and) aluminum, iron, silica and carbon, ... wherein said source of aluminum and iron comprises fly ash";
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By way of foreword, this is "just" another dispatch confirming that Carbon Dioxide, as recovered from whatever convenient source, can be, in combination with Water, H2O, efficiently converted into various hydrocarbons, and/or other products of value, through a process based on electrolysis.
And, it is another such technology emerging from that technological and industrial giant, United Technologies, about whose CO2 recycling expertise we earlier reported, in the very-closely related:
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In a fairly recent dispatch, now accessible on the West Virginia Coal Association's web site via the link:
we made report of:
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