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you can access the research report:
 
"Co-Processing Coal and Natural Gas by the Hynol Process for Enhanced Methanol Production and Reduced CO2 Emissions

Prepared by:
 
Meyer Steinberg; Brookhaven National Laboratory; Upton, New York 11973 
 
June 19, 1997
 
Engineering Technology Division; DEPARTMENT OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY, BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY; UPTON, NEW YORK 11973
 
Prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy
Washington, DC
Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886"
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The report is too lengthy for us to transmit as an attached file. 
 
We do present some excerpts, below, but: Keep in mind as you read them, or browse the full report, that the Methane  -  the natural gas, with which Coal can be co-processed in the Hynol Process to synthesize the liquid fuel, plastics manufacturing raw material and, as per ExxonMobil's "MTG"(r), Process, Gasoline precursor, Methanol  -  can itself, through various patented and Nobel Prize-winning technologies, all as we've documented, be synthesized, as "substitute natural gas", from both Coal and Carbon Dioxide.
 
And, recall our dispatch of yesterday detailing:

Electrochemical synthesis of methane - Patent 4609440
 
We've submitted an almost copious amount of evidence attesting to the fact that Carbon Dioxide can be productively recycled, most especially and directly into the basic hydrocarbon, Methane, from which, as we've also copiously documented, liquid fuels such as Methanol and Gasoline can be synthesized; with some of those syntheses proceeding through reaction sequences that actually consume, or recycle, more Carbon Dioxide.
 
Herein we present yet another US Patent, almost a quarter-century old, as even more verification of those claims.

TEXAS ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT Blog | The Dallas Morning News
 
There is supposed to be a fuller news release available on this story, which appeared only yesterday. We're trying to track it down.
 
However, here you have it, from Oil Country to Coal Country: We can make oil for $30 per barrel from coal.
 
The excerpt:
"UT Arlington to license coal-to-crude tech to build a refinery this year
The University of Texas at Arlington has found a way to turn coal into crude oil, and, perhaps more importantly, the money to do so on a large scale.
Researchers with UTA's Center for Renewable Energy and Science Technology expect to license the technology to a company, which will build a refinery by the end of the year to turn lignite coal into oil. According to a press release, the process can produce oil for around $30 a barrel -- far less than the current market price for crude of around $75 a barrel.
While the process doesn't create renewable fuel, it would create a domestic source for vehicle fuel and plastics."
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As we've been saying: We can synthesize liquid fuel and plastics from coal; and, we can do it competitively.
They know that in the Oil Patch, and talk about it publicly. Why don't we seem to know it, or talk about it, in Coal Country?

Energy Citations Database (ECD) - - Document #6741632
 
We were able to pick up the trail of this coal liquefaction development project, sponsored and supervised by our United States Department of Energy, and undertaken for the DOE by Penn State University, about midway through the course of the project. Although some of the researchers involved are the same, and the topic, improving the technology of coal-to-liquid conversion, is the same, as in our earlier report of Penn State's Coal Conversion Contract with the USDOE, Number AC22-83PC60050, this seems to be a different research effort, with different parameters and different reportage, conducted under a different contract.
 
In the case of this contract, we have been able to locate some, but only some, of the reports made by Penn State to the DOE. We will include all those we've so far been able to track down, sequentially, in this dispatch.