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Not only Methane, but an appreciable amount of liquid fuel, in the form of Benzene, as well, can be manufactured by the Steam-Coal Hydro-Gasification process our USDOE saw fit to pay a California aerospace and defense contractor to develop.
Within the Disclosure, we find even further confirmation of an important point that we have many times documented from other sources, which is:
The Hydrogen needed, to hydrogenate Coal's primarily Carbon content, and to thereby convert Coal into hydrocarbons, can be extracted from H2O, in the form of Steam, introduced into various stages of a Coal gasification process.
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United States Patent Application: 0080023338
As we have previously reported, the United States Department of Energy, in it's wisdom, has farmed out management of our vital National Energy Technology Laboratories to consortiums of public and private corporations.
In addition to getting paid, with our tax money, to manage the labs, built with our tax money, those corporations are also authorized to assume at least partial ownership of the patent rights to the technologies that are developed in those laboratories by scientists whose salaries are paid with our tax money.
Thus, the patent rights to inventions arising from our Idaho National Laboratory, or INL, for one instance, are assigned to the INL's corporate managers: Battelle Energy Alliance.
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http://digital.library.ksu.edu.sa/V14M168R872.pdf
We've made reference many times to West Virginia University's "West Virginia Process" for the direct liquefaction of Coal. And, as we've stated many times, our understanding of the Process is that, like a few other direct Coal liquefaction technologies we've reported to you, it relies on an hydrogenated version of the primary and long-known Coal oil, Naphthalene, which is most commonly referred to by the abbreviated form of it's more technical name, Tetralin, to effect the hydrogenation and liquefaction of raw Coal.
And, one of our more recent reports concerning WVU and their use of Tetralin is accessible via:
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As now accessible via:
Denmark Recycles CO2 via Syntrolysis | Research & Development | News; wherein is disclosed the:
"Co-electrolysis of CO2 and H2O in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells; June 2010; Christopher Graves, et. al.; Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Denmark;
we have already made report of developments in CO2 recycling technology arising in the nation of Denmark.
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A potential economic benefit of Coal liquefaction which might not readily leap to mind is revealed in the Chevron technology we report in this dispatch.
As with natural deposits of crude petroleum, commercially-significant beds of Coal aren't always close to established routes of transport, and mine sites can thus be remote from "the market".
Transport costs, even if suitable transportation routes are available, could thus be so excessive that mining the Coal, for any purpose, would be uneconomical.
That issue has been addressed by others previously, and one solution that has been proposed to lower the costs of Coal transport - though we haven't researched to find out if it has anywhere been reduced to genuine commercial practice - is to grind Coal up at the mine site, blend it into water, and then pump the resulting "slurry", via pipeline, for delivery to the end-use or refining and processing locations.
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