USDOE 2013 CO2-Free Coal to Liquid Hydrocarbons

United States Patent: 8366902

 

Although it should by now be self-evident to any of our readers what our thesis herein will be about, we'll let our own United States Government sum it up for us all, in an advance excerpt from the official "Background and Description" segment of the United States Patent we enclose herein, which represents official confirmation, by one technically-astute branch of our US Government, of the validity and practicality of technology established by another technically-astute branch of our US Government:

Mercury Does Not Disqualify Coal Ash for Use in Concrete

http://www.flyash.info/2011/157-Zhang-2011.pdf

 

We have been researching the issue of Mercury control regulations that are pending imposition by the US EPA on our economically vital Coal-based power generation industries.

 

There are, actually, a number of good options for Mercury control that would enable us to continue using Coal profitably for the generation of abundant, affordable electric power; and, our research is far from complete.

Panasonic 2013 CO2 to Methane, Formic Acid and Carbon Monoxide

United States Patent: 8414758

 

We've presented you with a number of reports documenting the development, by Japan's Panasonic Corporation, of a suite of chemical energy conversion technologies designed to, as seen for one example in:

 

West Virginia Coal Association | Panasonic Sunshine Extracts Even More Hydrogen from H2O | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent Application 20130075250 - Hydrogen Production Device; March 28, 2013; Assignee: Panasonic Corporation, (Japan); A hydrogen production device ... for producing hydrogen directly from water and sunlight";

Environmentalists Try to Block Bayer CO2 Recycling

The Bayer MaterialScience Carbon Monoxide Pipeline

We apologize in advance for the disorganized nature of this dispatch. There's a lot of ground to cover just to get to the primary, some perhaps ironic, points.

 

First, we remind you that we have now documented a number of technologies whereby Carbon Dioxide can be productively recycled, via chemical conversion into the industrially-valuable Carbon Monoxide.

France Uses Hydrogen to Convert CO2 to Carbon Monoxide

United States Patent Application: 0030113244

 

We first refer you to our recent report of:

 

West Virginia Coal Association | Panasonic Sunshine Extracts Even More Hydrogen from H2O | Research & Development; concerning, primarily: "US Patent Application 20130075250 - Hydrogen Production Device";

 

wherein is disclosed additional technology developed by Japan's Panasonic Corporation to efficiently produce "hydrogen directly from water and sunlight"; and, which report referenced others we've made documenting Panasonic's initial and ongoing improvement of such technology for the generation of Hydrogen from nothing, in essence, but Water and freely-available Sunshine.