http://www.anl.gov/PCS/acsfuel/preprint%20archive/Files/22_1_NEW%20ORLEANS_03-77_0197.pdf

 
We've previously documented development of the "Synthane" technology at the USDOE's Pittsburgh, PA, research and development lab, wherein Coal is converted into "synthetic" natural gas.
 
Herein, via the enclosed link and attached document, is more evidence that development of the Synthane process, which could produce a substitute natural gas from coal, suitable both for conventional pipeline gas uses or for further conversion, via catalysis, into liquid fuels, was organized, systematic and thorough.
 

Energy Citations Database (ECD) - - Document #5733165
 
New Mexico, with some appreciable Coal reserves, was, apparently, more than a quarter-century ago, prescient enough to look into how they might use those reserves to help supply their liquid fuel needs.
 
And, they were thorough enough to examine a number of different Coal conversion processes, including, significantly, we think, the Union Carbide process, which, as we have documented, was reduced for a time to industrial practice near Charleston, WV, and was patented by Union Carbide scientists resident and working in West Virginia.
 

Patent US2634286
 

In a very recent dispatch, concerning the Synthane Coal conversion process developed by US Government scientists working in Pittsburgh, PA, we noted, as we have previously documented from other reputable sources, as in our post of March 10, 2010, "Mobil Liquefies CoalTL Residue", concerning Mobil's US Patent for converting carbonaceous residues left behind by their primary Coal conversion process, that such residues can be further processed to yield even more commercially valuable hydrocarbons.
 
Our own United States Government itself developed the technology to do just that, in it's Pittsburgh, PA, Bureau of Mines Coal Research Laboratory, in the late 1940's, as this United States Patent attests.
 

Patent US20090320356
 
Our headline might seem misleading after first glance at the title of this US Patent Application. But, utilizing Carbon Dioxide as an energy reserve, we assure you, is precisely what it is all about.
 
We have previously cited the University of Southern California's Nobel Prize winner, George Olah, and his USC colleague, Surya Prakesh, in our dispatches to the West Virginia Coal Association concerning the straightforward and commercial utilization, the recycling, of Carbon Dioxide; as opposed to the mandated storage, the "sequestration", of it, under almost blatantly false and misleading pretenses, in nearly-depleted petroleum reservoirs.
 
Herein, in this very recent patent application, we see the Nobel-certified genius, Dr. Olah, running a strategic end-around play on the Petroleum Industry's Carbon Dioxide geologic sequestration scam.