United   States Patent: 8043548

We've previously reported on the work of Iowa State University, in the   development of technologies that would serve to enable the more productive   utilization of the solid byproducts that arise from our essential use of Coal   in the generation of truly abundant and genuinely affordable electrical power.  

Recently, we saw, in:

West   Virginia Coal Association | Coal Ash Reinforced Recycled Plastic | Research   & Development; concerning: "US Patent 6,583,217 - Composite   Material Composed of Fly Ash and Waste PET; 2003;   
Assignees: Iowa State University and The University of Missouri;   Abstract: A composite material and method are described wherein melted waste,   chemically unmodified PET material and fly ash particles are mixed in a vessel   to disperse fly ash particles in the melted PET material. The resulting   mixture then is cooled to solidify the melted PET material to form a composite   material having a matrix comprising PET and dispersoids distributed in the   matrix and comprising fly ash particles";

United   States Patent Application: 0070149392

The information we enclose in this dispatch centers on a Carbon Dioxide   recycling technology, developed by the General Electric Company, about which   we've already reported.

That earlier dispatch was published on the West Virginia Coal   Association's web site on April 17 of 2011, and is accessible via the   link:

West   Virginia Coal Association | General Electric Recycles CO2 to Liquid Fuels |   Research & Development.

Unfortunately, as too often happens with links to official United States   Patent and Trademark Office, USPTO, documents, as we have noted for you   previously, the web link which we enclosed in that report, as it is now posted   on the WV Coal Association's web site, has not proven durable.

United   States Patent: 8198338

First of all, to our readers at the West Virginia Coal Association web   site:

If you have followed our, literally, thousands of reports over the past   several years, reports documenting the plain facts that Coal can be   efficiently converted into anything we now allow ourselves to be extorted by   OPEC for the supply of; that Coal Ash can be productively consumed and   utilized in the manufacture of Cement and Concrete; and, that Carbon Dioxide   can be productively and profitably recycled in the synthesis of even more   hydrocarbon fuels, you should know, you have a right to know, that, these   reports are not addressed solely to, or written only for, the West   Virginia Coal Association.

They are, in fact, sent and posted directly to fully half a dozen public   Coal Country journalists in the states of West Virginia and Pennsylvania; at   least one of whom was once considered to be a close personal friend of one of   our key team members.

United States Patent: 4917732

We have a number of times documented, that, in addition to being able to convert the solid byproducts arising from our essential use of Coal in the generation of genuinely economical electric power into additives or substitutes for Portland Cement and Portland Cement Concrete, as seen, for one example, in:

Pittsburgh Converts Coal Ash and Flue Gas into Cement | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent 5,766,339 - Producing Cement from a Flue Gas Desulfurization Waste; 1998; Assignee: Dravo Lime Company, Pittsburgh; Abstract: Cement is produced (from) a moist mixture of a flue gas desulfurization process waste product (and) aluminum, iron, silica and carbon ... wherein said source of aluminum and iron comprises fly ash";

we can also convert our Coal Ash into structural aggregates: replacements, in essence, for the sand and gravel which are ordinarily added to Concrete mixtures to enhance both handling characteristics and the final strength of the cured composite.