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United States Patent Application: 0110114501
We've now made quite a number of reports documenting the development of an efficient technology for the recycling of Carbon Dioxide, as recovered from whatever source, and it's conversion into synthetic hydrocarbons, by a team of scientists associated with New Jersey's Princeton University.
A few of those reports have included:
Princeton Recycles CO2 with US Government Support | Research & Development; concerning: "US Patent Application 20100187123A1 - Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Organic Products; 2010; Inventors: Andrew B. Bocarsly and Emily Barton Cole, NJ; Government Interests: This invention was made with United States government support from Natural Science Foundation Grant No. CHE-0606475. The United States Government has certain rights in this invention. A method of converting of carbon dioxide to provide at least one product ... (and) where the at least one product is methanol, isopropanol, formic acid, formaldehyde, glyoxal or ethanol"; and:
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A lot of us, over the years, have heard the name "UNESCO", and understand that is something that has to do with the United Nations.
But, we doubt that very many of us know what "UNESCO" actually means or stands for; or, what it is, exactly, that "UNESCO" actually does.
In brief, the acronym stands for the "United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization"; and, more can be learned via:
Introducing UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; wherein we're told, in part, that:
"UNESCO’s mission is to contribute to the building of peace, the eradication of poverty, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue through education, the sciences, culture, communication and information."
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Ash Tech - Leader in Exports & Supplies of Fly Ash
We've been documenting the plain fact that the solid Coal Utilization Byproducts, more commonly known as Fly Ash and Scrubber Sludge, currently arising most particularly from our combustion of Coal for the generation of economical electric power, are, in fact, valuable raw materials from which we can derive products useful in the construction, concrete, plastics and other industries.
Some of our reports on the issue have included:
University of Kentucky Prepares Coal Ash for Market | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent 6,533,848 - High Quality Polymer Filler and Super-Pozzolan from Fly Ash; 2003; Assignee: The University of Kentucky; Abstract: A novel method for producing fly ash material with a range of particle sizes (as specified) is provided utilizing superplasticizers. The method produces fly ash material suitable for use as filler material in the plastics industry and super pozzolan for the concrete industry"; and:
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Since we've more recently been documenting the fact, as in, for just two examples:
California Rocket Scientists Liquefy Coal | Research & Development; concerning, in part:
"United States Patent 4,243,509 - Coal Hydrogenation; 1981; Rockwell International Corporation, CA; Disclosure is made of a method and apparatus for reacting carbonaceous material such as pulverized coal with heated hydrogen to form hydrocarbon gases and liquids suitable for conversion to fuels"; and:
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United States Patent Application: 0110177571
We recently reported that our United States Department of Energy had developed strains of Algae, and associated Algae cultivation technologies, that would enable and provide for the direct biological conversion of Carbon Dioxide, as recovered from whatever handy source, into that darling of the Environmental and Agricultural special interest groups, Ethanol.
The report is accessible via:
USDOE Algae Recycle More CO2 and Produce Ethanol | Research & Development; and centers on:
"US Patent 7,973,214 - Designer Organisms for Photosynthetic Production of Ethanol from CO2 and Water; July 5, 2011; Inventor: James Weifu Lee, TN; Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge".
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