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Energy Citations Database (ECD) - - Document #21058939
First, referring to our headline, the "high-tech metal" we specifically intend is "Germanium".
And, you might well be inspired to ask:
What the heck is Germanium, anyway; and, why should I care?
Well, as has been explained to us, Germanium is a semi-metallic element that belongs to the same "family", or Group on the Periodic Table of Elements, as Carbon and Silicon.
And, like Silicon, it is a semi-conductor, only, in certain ways, better. The only reason, in fact, that we don't have a "Germanium Valley" as opposed to a "Silicon Valley" is because it ain't that easy to come by.
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We've presented numerous reports documenting the development of practical Coal liquefaction technologies by the United States Petroleum industry.
The companies that finally coalesced into that lovable giant, ExxonMobil, especially, established for themselves a significant body of technology that would seem to enable their switching from crude Oil to Coal as their basic feedstock for making liquid fuels pretty much any time it might please them to do so.
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Dominion recycling center turns ash to cash | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com
We submit herein another lengthy collection of direct, seemingly reputable, confirmations of the fact that Coal fly ash, just like Carbon Dioxide, is a by-product of our vital Coal-use industries of immense potential value; a raw material out of which we can make any number of things, via processes that, by putting to valuable use what might otherwise be treated - laughably, ridiculously, preposterously and fraudulently - as "hazardous" waste, actually conserve other vital, natural resources.
First, from fully one half of a decade ago, we submit an article from a definitely not-Coal Country newspaper, clearly reporting that Coal power plant fly ash can be treated and utilized as a raw material commodity.
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As we have begun to document, the Fly Ash byproduct of Coal-fired power generation can be employed in a number of very productive ways, as can, as we've documented, for one instance, in:
Exxon Converts Coal Conversion Residues to Cement | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent 4,260,421 - Cement Production from Coal Conversion Residues; 1981; Exxon Research and Engineering Company: Abstract: Cement is produced by feeding residue solids containing carbonaceous material and ash constituents obtained from converting a carbonaceous feed material into liquids and/or gases into a cement-making zone and burning the carbon in the residue solids to supply at least a portion of the energy required to convert the solids into cement";
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Our headline won't at first seem to match up well with the content accessed via our opening link, above; but, we assure you, it all ties in, as should become apparent.
In a recent news article concerning the campaign by West Virginia's elected representatives to forestall the short-sighted and wasteful classification of Coal fly ash as a hazardous waste by the US EPA:
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