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California Hydrogenates Coal, & CO2, with Steam

 
Since, in order to convert our abundant Coal into more versatile hydrocarbon liquids and gasses - which can serve as direct replacements for those we now derive from petroleum - we have to hydrogenate the Carbon, of which Coal is essentially comprised, we herein continue to document the fact that such hydrogenation can be accomplished, simply and directly, through reactions between hot Coal and Steam.
 
And, what should be interesting, again as we have earlier documented, supplemental Carbon Dioxide can be added to such processes, since Steam provides an abundance of Hydrogen, so as to increase the production of hydrocarbons.

Argentina & Spain Recycle CO2

  
We enclose herein even more confirmation that the potential exists to recycle Carbon Dioxide into materials of genuine utility and value. We don't have to punish our vital Coal-use industries, through Cap&Trade taxation schemes or Geologic Sequestration scams, because they produce it for us.

Wyoming 1970 Coal + H20 = Hydrocarbons

  
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.

Texaco 1975 Methane from Coal

 
We have, among other issues, been regularly extolling the many virtues of Methane, which include that it can be directly catalyzed into liquid hydrocarbons; that it can enhance the productivity of some processes of indirect Coal conversion into liquid hydrocarbons; and, that it can be reacted with Carbon Dioxide, to recycle that supposed greenhouse pollutant, in reforming reactions, which, we have just recently discovered, and will document, have been known of for a surprisingly long time, to synthesize even more liquid hydrocarbons.  
 
We have documented, and will further report, that such valuable Methane can be synthetically manufactured via both the Sabatier recycling of Carbon Dioxide and the steam-, or hydro-, gasification of Coal.
 
Herein, we submit further documentation of that last fact.

Swiss CO2 + H2O+ Sunlight = Methanol

  
We have been documenting the joint development, by Swiss and Israeli scientists, of technologies, similar to the tri-reforming technology espoused by Penn State University, wherein Carbon Dioxide can be reacted with Methane, which can itself be synthesized, via the Sabatier process, from Carbon Dioxide, to synthesize hydrocarbons of commercial value.
 
Herein, we present further documentation of their accomplishments in the efficient, and profitable, though in this case somewhat technically different, recycling of Carbon Dioxide.
 
Unfortunately, as with many of our US oil industry descriptions of Carbon Dioxide recycling, and Coal conversion, technologies, you have to dig deep and look sharp to discover what this is really all about.