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DOE - Fossil Energy: Mercury Emission Control R&D
We start to readdress herein a topic that has begun to take on a little more importance lately, since, according to some recent news reports, as, for instance:
West Virginia Coal Association | Associations Petitioning for Review of the EPA's | Latest; concerning:
"(Coal) Associations Petitioning for Review of EPA's (Rules on Mercury Emissions); The West Virginia Coal Association has joined an alliance of state coal, manufacturing and energy associations, as well as state chambers of commerce in petitioning for a judicial review of recent actions by the EPA related to mercury standards at steam electrical generation facilities. The petition challenges the rule filed by the EPA on February 16 (2012)";
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USGS Fact Sheet 076-01: Coal Combustion Products
Herein, we see that the United States Geological Survey, the USGS:
Welcome to the USGS - U.S. Geological Survey;
a bureau within the United States Department of the Interior, has studied the issue of Coal Utilization Byproducts, "CUBS"; performing more of a survey than anything else, and documented a number of current productive uses for what they, and others, refer to as Coal Combustion Products, "CCPS", a label which some prefer and which might, in fact, have more positive connotations.
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We earlier made report of what we believe to have been the Patent Application which matured into the United States Patent we include and disclose herein.
As can be seen our full dispatch, as accessible via:
California Hydrogasifies, and Recycles, Even More Carbon | Research & Development; which concerns: "United States Patent Application 0050256212 - Production of Synthetic Transportation Fuels; Date: November, 2006; Inventors: Jospeh Norbeck, et. al., CA and MA";
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http://www.epa.gov/epp/pubs/
As we've documented, for just one example, in:
West Virginia Coal Association | Fly Ash Facts for Engineers | Research & Development; concerning The United States Federal Highways Administration document: "Fly Ash Facts for Highway Engineers; Report Number: FHWA-IF-03-019; Contract: DTFH61-02-X-00044; 2003; Coal fly ash is a coal combustion product that has numerous applications in highway construction (and) has been used in roadways and interstate highways since the early 1950s. In 1974, the FHWA encouraged the use of fly ash in concrete pavement with Notice N 5080.4, which urged states to allow partial substitution of fly ash for cement whenever feasible. In addition, in January 1983, the Environmental Protection Agency published federal comprehensive procurement guidelines for cement and concrete containing fly ash to encourage the utilization of fly ash and establish compliance deadlines. This document is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, through the Federal Highway Administration, in cooperation with the American Coal Ash Association and the United States Environmental Protection Agency. The United States Environmental Protection Agency supports the beneficial use of coal combustion products as an important priority and endorses efforts by the Federal Highway Administration as described in this document";
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United States Patent Application: 0100187172
We have several times documented the extraordinary technology that has been developed at Penn State University, which would enable us to begin treating Carbon Dioxide, as it is co-produced in only a small way, relative to natural sources of emission such as volcanoes, from our economically vital and essential use of Coal in the generation of electrical power, for what it truly is:
A freely-available natural raw material resource which we can harvest and then convert into anything, almost quite literally anything, we now indenture ourselves to the somewhat inimical alien nations of OPEC for the supply of.
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