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From: Frederick SparberTo: vortex-lSent: 7/29/2006 7:39:17 PMSubject: [Vo]:
John Steck's message of Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:30:11-0500:To wit:>>I know picking a side is contentious, but I disagree entirely with that>statement. I will not argue the point that we are too reliant on a single>fuel source, that this addiction is dumping excessive C02 into the>environment, that this dumping is very bad, and that it has a measurable>negative effect on the thermal dynamics of the planet (crapping in our own>fishbowl). But it is a hard argument to maintain that the increase in>geological events is direct result. Cyclical warming and cooling has been>going on long before long before we show up in the fossil record.>Here's how to start cleaning your fishbowl, John. :-)Photo-voltaic or Windmill in your Windy City suburb to run it?Fred1983 Patent by Chevron Research Corp. San Francisco"The electrochemical gasification reaction of carbonaceous materials by anodic oxidation in an aqueous acidic electrolyte to produce oxides of carbon at the anode and hydrogen at the cathode of an electrolysis cell is catalyzed by the use of an iron catalyst.""As acknowledged in U.S. Pat. No. 4,226,683, the principal problem in the past use of this principle for commercial production of hydrogen, was the slow rate of the electrochemical reaction of coal or carbon and water. It has now been found that iron, when added to an aqueous acidic electrolyte containing the carbonaceous material, and preferably iron in the +3 valence state, catalyzes the rate of reaction and assists in obtaining more complete oxidation for the electrochemical oxidation of the carbonaceous material at the anode thus making the commercial production of hydrogen or method of electrowinning commercially feasible.""The carbonaceous materials suitable for use in accordance with the present invention include a wide variety of material such as bituminous coal, chars made from coal, lignite, peat, active carbons, coke, carbon blacks, graphite; wood or other lignocellulosic materials including forest products, such as wood waste, wood chips, sawdust, wood dust, bark, shavings, wood pellets; including various biomass materials as land or marine vegetation or its waste after other processing, including grasses, various cuttings, crops and crop wastes, coffee grounds, leaves, straw, pits, hulls, shells, stems, husks, cobs and waste materials including animal manure; sewage sludge resulting from municipal treatment plants, and plastics or the scraps or wastes formed in the production of plastic such as polyethylene, cellulose acetate and the like. Thus, it is seen that substantially any fuel or waste material whether a liquid, such as oil, a gas, such as methane or other ! ! hydrocarbon or waste material containing carbon, with the exception of CO.sub.2, provides a suitable source of carbonaceous material for use according to this invention."
"The particular apparatus used to carry out the electrolytic oxidation of carbonaceous materials is not critical. Substantially, the same apparatus and techniques that are utilized in the electrolytic decomposition of water as well as those described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,268,363, 4,226,683 and 4,233,132 which references are incorporated herein by reference, can be used with the method of this invention. Any selection of appropriate changes in use of materials and/or technique is well within the skill of those versed in the art to which this invention applies."
