United States Patent: 6638892

Since we are today, via separate dispatch, sending along report of: United States Patent: 6664207; wherein our own United States Government confirms that ConocoPhillips knows how to convert Carbon Dioxide into the liquid hydrocarbon fuels, Methanol and Dimethyl Ether, we wanted to confirm for you herein that Conoco knows how to do the very same thing with Coal.

Comment further concerning United States Patent: 6664207follows excerpts from the initial link in this dispatch to:

United States Patent Application: 0090194408

As we've many times documented, a number of nations around the world have been at work developing technologies which would enable us to treat Carbon Dioxide as a raw material resource, from which we can manufacture all sorts of organic compounds, including hydrocarbon fuels.

Among those nations is a one-time staunch ally of the US, who we ultimately abandoned to the tender mercies of one of our international competitors.

Herein, we see that Taiwan has continued their work on Carbon Dioxide recycling technologies, even to the point of applying for a US Patent on one of them.

Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information - Sponsored by OSTI

We've documented several times previously that US Department of Energy offices and labs near WVU, in Morgantown, WV, have been responsible for the management and oversight of a number of USDOE-funded efforts across the nation, initiatives focused on the conversion of our abundant Coal into direct replacements for all those products, fuels and others, we now manufacture from dwindling and unreliable petroleum.

Herein, we learn that our USDOE, through Morgantown, contracted with a number of entities, including North Carolina's Research Triangle Institute, Bechtel Corporation, and Eastman Chemical, as represented by scientists at their Kingsport, TN, Coal-to-Methanol facility, to further develop the technologies whereby plastics manufacturing raw materials can be extracted from Coal.

http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/Media/File/News/HR_5656_Repeal_Ban_on_Govt_Fuel_Purchase.pdf

We've addressed the issue of Section 526 previously. It is a codicil squeezed into the books in the waning years of the Bush Administration.

It specifically prohibits our US military from buying or using Coal-derived liquid fuels.

That such a thing could even come up, and be discussed among our elected representatives, should stand as testament to the quite practical reality of Coal liquefaction technology and art.

It is so real that some among us feel it to be a threat.