Panasonic High-Efficiency Hydrogen from H2O

United States Patent Application: 0120285823

 

We've presented you with a number of reports concerning Japan's Panasonic Corporation, who were once very well-known in the United States, and their development of technologies focused on the recycling of Carbon Dioxide. That is, the efficient conversion of Carbon Dioxide into such seemingly-desired substances as Methane, which we now, as seen in:

 

West Virginia Coal Association | Penn State: Marcellus Frack Fluids Bring Ancient Radium to the Surface | Research & Developme; concerning, in part, the report from Penn State University: "'Analysis of Marcellus flowback finds high levels of ancient brines'; University Park, PA; Brine water that flows back from gas wells in the Marcellus Shale region after hydraulic fracturing is many times more salty than seawater, with high contents of various elements, including radium";

Bayer Corporation Converts CO2 into "Biogasoline"

United States Patent Application: 0110065157

We won't be able to explain it well, but, as one among our number here can personally attest, the major Coal Country corporate citizen, with headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA, and a couple of industrial manufacturing sites in West Virginia, the well-known Bayer Corporation, strives to maintain, as components of its company culture, a sense of mission centered on social responsibility, coupled with a drive for competitiveness based on that socially-responsible sense of mission.

Ethane Cracker Realities

Wanted: Ethane Cracker - News, Sports, Jobs - The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register

This ain't really intended for posting on the WV Coal Association's R&D Blog - although they're certainly free to use it if they want to, anyway they see fit.

If they do, it will serve as introduction to some future reports in the works about China, and their development of a plastics manufacturing industry founded on Coal, a topic we begin to introduce via our closing comments herein.

And, we don't wish, or mean, to fault companies who honestly believe they have raw material opportunities which could help them to expand their businesses into new areas, bringing with them a variety of economic and employment benefits.

Ohio State Extracts and Produces Nearly Pure CO2

United States Patent: 8226917

As seen very currently in:

OSU Research Promising For Future of Coal - News, Sports, Jobs - The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register; concerning: "A 'dramatically different' energy generating process developed at Ohio State University could keep Ohio Valley residents working in local coal mines for generations to come. A research team led by Professor Liang-Shih Fan is using Coal-Direct Chemical Looping to generate electricity and capture 99 percent of the carbon dioxide that results from the process (and) American coal could continue to be a viable fuel for decades to come, even under strict federal limits on carbon emissions ... . Since 99 percent of the carbon dioxide produced can be captured, Fan said it can be used for ... chemical synthesis";

The Conversion of Coal to Acetylene

Patent US1137567

Although we can't seem to find the specific report, or reports, in the West Virginia Coal Association Research and Development Archives, we long ago, on more than one occasion we believe, made reference to, and documented, the fact that Acetylene gas - - which should be familiar to every old country boy who ever had to, before the days of simple and cheap electric arc welders, use a torch to braze on a sheet metal patch over a rust hole on his work truck or slice through a padlock he lost the key to - - is a hydrocarbon which has traditionally, whether it was obvious or not, been made, indirectly, from Coal.