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Without linking to earlier reports, we remind you that we have previously documented the "International Coal Refining (ICR) Company", which was a USDOE-funded joint venture comprising Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc., and Pennsylvania's Air Products and Chemicals company, that built, and for a brief time operated, a "Solvent Refined Coal", or "SRC", Coal refining facility near Allentown, PA.
Since, in coming days, we will be sending along report of additional Coal conversion technologies developed independently by Air Products, in the years immediately subsequent to the ICR project, but again with USDOE funding, we wanted, herein, to document even more Coal processing technology that originated at the Allentown SRC pilot plant.
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Since we are today, via separate dispatch, sending along report of: United States Patent: 6664207; wherein our own United States Government confirms that ConocoPhillips knows how to convert Carbon Dioxide into the liquid hydrocarbon fuels, Methanol and Dimethyl Ether, we wanted to confirm for you herein that Conoco knows how to do the very same thing with Coal.
Comment further concerning United States Patent: 6664207follows excerpts from the initial link in this dispatch to:
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Not long ago, as seen in: ConocoPhillips CO2 to Methanol | Research & Development | News; we made report of:
"US Patent Application 20030060355 - Converting Carbon Dioxide to Oxygenates; March, 2003;
Inventors: Jinhua Yao and James Kimble, Bartlesville, OK; Abstract: A catalyst and process for converting carbon dioxide into oxygenates. The catalyst comprises copper, zinc, aluminum, gallium, and a solid acid."
That catalyst served to help convert, as a component of the total described process, as specifically stated: "carbon dioxide to methanol and dimethyl ether".
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We've addressed the issue of Section 526 previously. It is a codicil squeezed into the books in the waning years of the Bush Administration.
It specifically prohibits our US military from buying or using Coal-derived liquid fuels.
That such a thing could even come up, and be discussed among our elected representatives, should stand as testament to the quite practical reality of Coal liquefaction technology and art.
It is so real that some among us feel it to be a threat.
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Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information - Sponsored by OSTI
We've documented several times previously that US Department of Energy offices and labs near WVU, in Morgantown, WV, have been responsible for the management and oversight of a number of USDOE-funded efforts across the nation, initiatives focused on the conversion of our abundant Coal into direct replacements for all those products, fuels and others, we now manufacture from dwindling and unreliable petroleum.
Herein, we learn that our USDOE, through Morgantown, contracted with a number of entities, including North Carolina's Research Triangle Institute, Bechtel Corporation, and Eastman Chemical, as represented by scientists at their Kingsport, TN, Coal-to-Methanol facility, to further develop the technologies whereby plastics manufacturing raw materials can be extracted from Coal.
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