USDOE Efficient Hydrogen from Water

United   States Patent: 4180555

We've now documented for you many technologies which enable the efficient   conversion of our abundant domestic Coal, and other, but   renewable, carbon resources into liquid hydrocarbons; that is, into   direct replacements for anything, quite literally anything, we currently   debase our nation and mortgage our children's futures to keep ourselves   supplied with by purchasing from OPEC.

And, perhaps it would be instructive to dwell on a concept embodied in   that statement for a bit.

The phrase "addiction to foreign oil", with the others like it, in   all it's variations, although now overused to the point where it's trite, so   commonplace that it's almost meaningless and trivial, carries strangely a   depth of implication and meaning that bears, should demand, contemplation;   especially insofar as it applies to our need for oil from unpleasant and   dangerous places like the Persian Gulf, where extraordinary expenditures of   taxpayer money are needed to keep the US Navy on patrol to defend shipping   lanes, in essence subsidizing Big Oil's shipment of product by supplying   security services.

Coal Ash, Congress and Common Sense

http://smbiz.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Ward_Testimony.pdf

The information - - concerning the immense value which we should ascribe   to the solid residua arising from our economically essential use of Coal in   the generation of truly affordable electric power - - we submit herein isn't,   as we actually much prefer, a fully-vetted and formal United States patent   disclosure of specific technology, or, some other impeccably objective and   peer-reviewed exposition of facts and data.

It is, however, the interesting and compelling official testimony of a   genuine expert in the field of Coal Ash recycling and reuse, as presented   to the United States Congress.

In it, much of what we have been, and continue, documenting for you   as a component of our contributions to the West Virginia Coal Association's   Research and Development web site is summarized and confirmed:

Bayer Reveals "Hidden Value" of Coal: Carbon Dioxide

CO2   as New Carbon Source for Chemical Industry | chemanager-online.com - Chemistry   and Life Science

In a few recent reports, now accessible via:

West   Virginia Coal Association | Bayer Corporation Promotes Carbon Dioxide   Recycling | Research & Development; concerning: "The Bayer Scientific Magazine;   'Three Atoms for a Clean Future'; CO2 destined to become a   valuable raw material for innovative substances; Together   with a group of partners, Bayer researchers are making good progress in this   direction, and have found a way to incorporate CO2 into the molecular   structure of polyurethanes, thus saving oil"; and:

West   Virginia Coal Association | Bayer Is Converting Coal Power Plant CO2 Into   Plastics | Research & Development; concerning: "Bayer Material Science   CO2-to-Plastics Pilot Plant, Germany; In February 2011, Bayer MaterialScience   started a new pilot plant (in the) North Rhine-Westphalia state of Germany for   producing plastics from carbon dioxide (CO2). It will be used to develop   polyurethanes from the waste gas released during power generation";

Duke University Says Coal Conversion Too Big to Ignore

http://www.biology.duke.edu/jackson/ep2012.pdf

We open with an initial excerpt taken from the document we enclose, via the above link, in this dispatch:

"In the past five years,China has quickly built an industry of coal-based methanol and dimethylether (DME)
that is competitive in price with petroleum-based fuels. Methanol fuels offer many advantages, including a high octane rating and cleaner-burning properties than gasoline."

To paraphrase: China has built an industry that makes their own liquid transportation fuels, at a cost that is competitive with imported oil, out of their domestic Coal.

The "methanol" they make out of Coal, as we have many times documented, can be converted into Gasoline, if wanted, via, for just one example, the ExxonMobil MTG(r) process.

American Electric Power Collects Fly Ash for Use in Polymers

United States Patent: 6216612

That the Ash resulting from our essential use of Coal in the generation of truly economical electric power is a valuable raw material resource; one which can be profitably consumed in, and enable, the manufacture of high-performance Portland-type Cement (PC) and Portland-type Cement Concrete (PCC), should, by now, be incontrovertible to all but the deliberately-dense, or willfully-disbelieving, among our readers.

Herein, we document a little more detail concerning just how sophisticated the understanding that Coal Ash is such a valuable raw material resource, and how it can be better harvested and utilized, has, in certain circles, become.