United States Patent: 4376032

Without linking to earlier reports, we remind you that we have previously documented the "International Coal Refining Company", which was a USDOE-funded joint venture between Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc., and Pennsylvania's Air Products and Chemicals company, that built, and for a brief time operated, a "Solvent Refined Coal", or SRC, Coal liquefaction facility near Allentown, PA.

That plant was intended to, ultimately, be a large-scale Coal conversion factory, the plans of which called for it, after initial trials and start-up, to be expanded to produce 100,00 barrels, per day, of Oil, from 30,000 tons, per day, of Coal.

Which, almost of course, for unknown reasons we must hold suspect, never happened.

United States Patent: 4077778

We submit herein yet more confirmation of the fact that Coal can, with perhaps surprising efficiency, be converted into Methane gas.

That fact has some implications which should, if you have followed our posts thus far, have some portent for you relative not only to the profitable - to some privileged few - myth that hydrocarbon fuels are in short supply and the costs of them thus must keep going up, but, as well, to the now-obvious, and obviously deliberately-fostered, fallacy that Carbon Dioxide is nothing more than a dangerous waste which must somehow, perhaps through Geologic Sequestration, at great expense to our vital Coal-use industries and their customers, but at great benefit to Oil producers engaged in the secondary scrounging of last Petroleum dregs from natural reservoirs, be disposed of.

Via separate dispatch today, as we note in concluding comments, we are providing yet more documentation regarding the Carbon Dioxide fallacy, which does relate to the Coal technology disclosed herein by Exxon.

Process for the manufacture of a gas from co2 and methane, suitable for the synthesis of hydrocarbons

Since we are, via separate dispatch today, sending along report of: United States Patent: 4077778; wherein Exxon discloses a process that can convert up to 99%, essentially all, of the Carbon content in Coal into Methane, we wanted, herein, to again confirm that Methane - once we have it, perhaps as efficiently synthesized, via the process of USP 4,077,778, from Coal - can be reacted, "reformed", with Carbon Dioxide, reclaimed from whatever source, in a reaction that converts both of those accused greenhouse culprits into valuable liquid hydrocarbons.

Of additional interest might be the fact that such seemingly-valuable knowledge was established in Pittsburgh, PA, in the very early days of our US involvement in WWII.

United States Patent Application: 0090235587

We've dwelled to some extent lately on the Carbon Dioxide recycling technologies being developed by scientists at our United States Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory.

Our reports have included: USDOE Idaho Lab Recycles More CO2 | Research & Development | News; wherein is detailed "High Temperature H2O/CO2 Co-electrolysis; G. Hawkes, J. O'Brien, C. Stoots, et. al., and: USDOE Converts More CO2 to Hydrocarbon Syngas | Research & Development | News; which of which revealed that USDOE scientist Carl Stoots, as above, was named as the lead inventor of a Carbon Dioxide recycling technology in: United States Patent Application: 0080023338 - "Electrolysis for Syngas Production"; which formally disclosed some of the Carbon Dioxide-Water co-electrolysis procedures, for the production of hydrocarbon synthesis gas, that had been developed, as evidenced in our other reports, at the Idaho Lab.

Herein, via the initial link in this dispatch, we see that another of the Idaho Lab scientists, named above, has been identified as the lead inventor in yet another Carbon Dioxide-recycling technology originating at our Idaho facility.