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United States Patent Application: 0150072853
We've made numerous reports over the years documenting the development, by various entities in Saudi Arabia, of technologies wherein Carbon Dioxide, typically stated to be recovered from the exhaust gases of petrochemical plants, is converted into, that is, Carbon Dioxide is consumed in the synthesis of, a range of hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals, from fuel alcohols all the way to what seems to be a synthetic petroleum.
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In spite of everything you've been led to believe by the largely indiscriminate media, the United States of America is and is expected to remain, even as the shale gas mania crests, a net importer of natural gas.
We've cited and linked to gas import/export reports, and projections, made available by the USDOE's Energy Information Administration in previous dispatches touching on that issue; but, the format of EIA tabulations of domestic gas production, domestic usage, and net imports and exports, has changed recently and they no longer lend themselves to efficient excerpt and summary.
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United States Patent Application: 0140272734
Carbon Dioxide, as we might harvest from the exhaust gases produced during our economically essential use of Coal in the generation of abundant and affordable electric power, is a valuable energy resource.
Carbon Dioxide can, in combination with Water, H2O, be used and consumed as the basic raw materials in the productive synthesis of hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals.
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United States Patent Application: 0140272734
Carbon Dioxide, as we might harvest from the exhaust gases produced during our economically essential use of Coal in the generation of abundant and affordable electric power, is a valuable energy resource.
Carbon Dioxide can, in combination with Water, H2O, be used and consumed as the basic raw materials in the productive synthesis of hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals.
We have by now made numerous reports on the development, by our United States Department of Energy, of technology that is sometimes referred to as "syntrolysis", wherein, in what is often described as a "solid oxide fuel cell" run in reverse, Carbon Dioxide, CO2, and Water, H2O, are "co-electrolyzed" and broken down into their simpler constituents, i.e.: Carbon Monoxide, Hydrogen and Oxygen.
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Major petroleum companies have lately been investing in the development of more refined, more sophisticated technologies directed to the conversion of Coal into substitute natural gas; which substitute natural gas is most often specified to consist of, primarily, Methane.
Why they're making such investments when we are, in the USA, supposedly on the verge of energy independence based on shale gas extraction might seem puzzling, until you consider some of the facts, as exposed for one example by an article in the rather sober science journal, Nature:
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