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Herein, we see that Japanese scientists successfully devoted themselves to the task of reducing the costs of converting our abundant Coal into needed hydrocarbons.
The did so by finding a way to efficiently hydro-gasify lower-grade, lower-cost Coal, to form hydrocarbon synthesis gas, by utilizing inexpensive chemicals to catalyze and promote the Coal gasification process.
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Gasification of carbonaceous solid fuels
We enclose, in this dispatch, via links and files, two closely-related and identically-labeled United States Patents, both issued more than one half of a century ago to the Pittsburgh region's Consolidation Coal Company, and one of which we might have reported to you previously.
The lead named inventor is Everett Gorin, Consol's accomplished Coal conversion scientist whom we have already cited for you many times.
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Enclosed are two links and one attached file, with excerpts, which demonstrate, yet again, how we have been, and how we continue, fooling ourselves - or allowing ourselves to be fooled - about our own potentials for domestically producing and supplying all of our own, United States, hydrocarbon fuel requirements.
Over the long course of our reportage, we have more than thoroughly documented the plain facts that both Coal and Carbon Dioxide can be converted into more versatile hydrocarbons - direct replacements for the gas and liquid fuels we have been allowing ourselves to be extorted beyond all reason for the supply of.
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Since we are sending along today, via separate dispatch, report of, among other things, "US Patent 7,726,127 - Solar Power for Thermochemical Production of Hydrogen; 2010; Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Incorporated, CA"; wherein is disclosed how Hydrogen can be effectively and economically generated by the use of inexhaustible solar energy, we wanted to, in this dispatch, emphasize how such Hydrogen could be beneficially applied to the upgrading of liquid hydrocarbons derived from Coal.
Note that such Coal liquid upgrading is, or can be made to be, fully compatible with conventional, already established and practiced, petroleum refining, and petroleum distribution and storage, techniques.
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Last November, as available via: Exxon Lubricating Oil from CoalTL Wax | Research & Development | News; we sent you report of:United States Patent: 5290426 - High Porosity ... Catalyst and its Use; 1994; Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering; which, it's title aside, actually disclosed a process technology that could "produce high yields (of liquid hydrocarbons) from a synthetic Fischer-Tropsch wax".
Such "synthetic Fischer-Tropsch wax", we remind you, is a buildup of semi-solid hydrocarbons that can accumulate on the surfaces of catalysts used to condense synthesis gas, derived from, among other sources, Coal, into liquid hydrocarbons.
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