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CIRI and Laurus Energy Form US Underground Coal Gasification JV

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Alaska Native corporation Cook Inlet Region Inc. Laurus Energy have formed Stone Horn Ridge LLC, a company created to commercialize syngas from underground coal gasification (UCG). The Anchorage, Alaska-based joint venture is developing syngas for power generation, synthetic liquid fuels and other industrial applications.

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Swiss company outlines methanol-to-gasoline option for Alaska North Slope gas to state legislature

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The resulting methanol would be blended with crude and transported via the trans-Alaska oil pipeline to Valdez, where it would be extracted from the oil and processed via Methanol-to-Gasoline technology into gasoline. Adjustment of syngas composition by hydrogen recycle. Methanol-to-gasoline process flow diagram. Source: EMRE.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

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Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. Then give us all a hydrogen cracker (solor powered) and run our cars and supplement our homes with the hydrogen. Thinking Globally, Acting Locally San Francisco City Carbon Collobarative 18th and 1. ► January (13) What Goes Down, Must Go Up? Then we are done! SZ (1) 6753.T

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