Exxon Methane from Coal and Carbon Dioxide

Herein, we present just more evidence of two facts, which can be summarized in one statement, which we have already many times documented to be true:
Both Coal and Carbon Dioxide can be efficiently converted into Methane.
The evidence herein comes again from one of the components of that lovable titan of the international petroleum industry, ExxonMobil, New Jersey's Exxon Research and Engineering Company. And, it will seem almost dreadfully repetitive to anyone who has somehow been motivated enough to follow our reports over the past four, and then some, years.

WVU & Canada Cement from Coal Liquefaction Residues

The United States Patent Application we enclose in this dispatch seems as good a way as any to begin reporting both on a technology for Coal liquefaction that has been established by West Virginia University and one or two of WVU's Coal technology development partners; and, on a business plan that WVU seems to have embarked upon to see that the technology is reduced to actual commercial practice.
We caution in advance, and we will remind you as we go along in coming reports, that WVU's latest suite of Coal conversion technologies represents a definitive advancement over what we have earlier reported as the "West Virginia Process" for the direct liquefaction of Coal; a technique which utilizes the Hydrogen-donor solvent known as "Tetralin", an hydrogenated version of the primary Coal, or Coke oven, oil, "Naphthalene", to effect, under rather extreme conditions of temperature and pressure, the hydrogenation and dissolution of the Carbon in the raw Coal feed.

New Jersey CO2 to High-Energy Alcohol

Note that we might be looking at a game-changer in this dispatch.
As we read the source document, there are nuances and implications inherent within it, that, even though our West Virginia Coal Association publishers don't like it when we do so, compel us to admonish the members of the Coal Country public press corps that are among our direct and primary addressees:

European Coal Ash to Concrete Construction Aggregate

United States Patent: 4780144

We remind you of a fairly recent dispatch, now accessible via:

West Virginia Coal Association | US EPA Examines Use of Coal Ash - in the Netherlands | Research & Development; concerning the US EPA report:

"'Aardelite Technology: Turning a residue into a building material'; United States Environmental Agency; Case Study 20; April, 2008; Aardelite pellets were used as natural gravel replacement for the construction of a housing compound consisting of 120 units for retired people at Dronten in the Netherlands. ... The Aardelite pellets used for this project were made from pulverized coal fly ash made available at a power station in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The composition of the Aardelite pellets was as follows: Fly Ash 79.7%; Calcium Oxide 3.3%; Water 17.0%. The pellets used in the concrete are made using the Aardelite process. The Aardelite technology is based on the activation and control of pozzolanic reactions in the fly ash/lime/water mixture by using the pozzolanic properties of fly ash".

WVU September 2012 CO2 into Hydrocarbon Syngas

We were uncertain how to introduce or preface this dispatch.
Some folksy, profanity-skirting quotes from coaches Bowden and Nehlen spring to mind, those seeming especially suitable on this auspicious fall Saturday. But, we decided, naw, if this doesn't earn the attention of the Coal Country press, if it doesn't get some people talking, we're more in need of someone from the WVU Med Center with a defibrillator than we are of a head coach from the stadium with a few gently-spoken and pithy exclamations.
We've previously reported on a technology known somewhat generically as "Syntrolysis"; a process wherein Carbon Dioxide and Water vapor are co-electrolyzed and transformed into a blend of Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen, better known as synthesis gas, or "syngas", a composition that can, through one of a number of long-known processes, such as the venerable Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, be chemically condensed into liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons.