Last December, we alerted you to work that had been done by the University of Wyoming, apparently in service to the United States Government, as in their report of "Effects of Solvent Characteristics on Wyodak Coal Liquefaction", which concerned analyses two Wyoming scientists had performed on Coal liquids produced by the Wilsonville, Alabama, government-sponsored Solvent Refined Coal (SRC) pilot plant that operated for a brief time in the 1970's.
The University of Wyoming was a good choice for that work, it now seems, since, as the enclosed document attests, they had, by the time of their SRC work, already developed a significant in-house body of knowledge centered on the technology for converting Coal into more versatile, and more valuable, hydrocarbons.
And, their work, as documented herein, confirms at least one important fact we have been attempting, in our more recent reports, to emphasize.
Comment follows excerpts from:
"United States Patent 3,505,204 - Direct Conversion of Carbonaceous Material to Hydrocarbons
Date; April, 1970
Inventor: Edward Hoffman, WY
Assignee: The University of Wyoming, Laramie
Abstract: Coal (is) converted directly to hydrocarbons ... by reacting (it) with steam ... .
The present invention ... relates to ... converting materials such as coal ... to hydrocarbons ... in a one-stage reaction with steam.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a process for the direct conversion of carbonaceous materials into hydrocarbons.
The condensed hydrocarbon liquid (generated by the process) may be further refined according to conventional refinery procedures to yield gasoline and diesel fuels ... ."
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Is that - amidst all the paranoid secrecy and alchemistic baloney so far heaped upon the science of Coal conversion - plain enough for you?
Coal + Steam = Gasoline. That, is the distilled essence of it.
Do you think that we might be able to find a little Coal, and maybe make a little Steam, in US Coal Country?