Eco Global Fuels & the Coal Industry
Can Eco Global Fuels help clean up the coal industry?
Yes, we can. And in a profitable way that constitutes a true win-win for both parties. There are over 640 coal and gas power plants in the United States alone that are in need of the right technology to deal with their carbon emissions.
How can the EGF hydroxy hydrogenation process put lipstick on the face of "clean coal"? 
Eco Global Fuels (EGF) is modeled to work in partnership with natural gas and coal-based power industries that would have to be retrofitted and converted to enviro-oxygen fired to produce a concentrated fossil carbon dioxide flue gases.
The enviro-oxygen as a byproduct of the Solanol process is then combusted with coal or gas fired power stations instead of "air", being the current practice.
Therefore the flue gases produced by coal and gas fired power stations using enviro-oxygen, will now consist of mainly fossil concentrated carbon dioxide that can easily be disposed of now, economically, and/or if necessary via a single desk carbon cap-trade permit utilized to produce Solanol.
The current cost of removing this fossil carbon dioxide component vented from the flue gases is a major technical-cost-deficit problem. This technical-cost-deficit is met by introducing enviro-oxygen to the combustion and emission stream to produce electrical power, making enviro-oxygen a valuable by-product of the Solanol process.
This invention has the capability to save these industries billions of dollars in regulatory penalties by reducing their carbon footprint. Otherwise they face steep penalties as industrial polluters.
The licensing potential for such an arrangement is enormous, not to mention the resulting benefit to the environment.
Are "clean" coal plants really clean?
In reality, there is no such thing as "clean" coal. Coal power plants emit carbon dioxide, the pollutant responsible for causing the climate crisis.
Losing an illusion is wiser than finding a truth.
A third of the United States' carbon pollution now comes from about 640 coal/gas-fired power plants, that being 1.65 billion tons of fossil carbon dioxide that is emitted into the atmosphere annually from the USA. And of the 70-plus proposed new coal power plants, less than a handful have plans to capture and store their carbon dioxide emissions.
If these dirty plants are built, an additional 200 million tons of global warming pollution will be emitted by the United States each year. Until coal and gas power plants are retrofitted and converted to enviro-oxygen fired instead of with air, to produce a concentrated fossil carbon dioxide flue gases, and stop releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, coal will remain a major emission contributor to global warming.
The cliche´d notion of "clean coal" as an oxymoron will remain so if the emissions of burnt coal are not addressed with the right, cost-efficient technolog - which is exactly what Eco Global Fuels is developing.
Are we depleting our crude oil reserves?
Yes. The following graphs illustrate the projected remaining world crude oil and shale reserves as well as their projected rate of consumption from 1920 to 2100. At the present and future calculated rate of consumption, a depletion of these reserves will occur by 2065. The graphs also indicate that our ability to maintain and increase production of crude oil and shale oil peaked in 2000.
What are the politics involved?
Industrialized nations, and the rest of the world, need a bold plan to free themselves from dependency on fossil fuels. Eco Global Fuels is convinced that a massive switch to solar, geothermal, wind, and hydro power combined with our hydroxy process is the best answer.
High prices for gasoline and heating oil are here to stay and the politics of oil are combustible to say the least. As China, India, and other nations rapidly increase their demand for fossil fuels, fighting over oil interests will continue to loom large on the horizon. Meanwhile, the United States alone is responsible for 6.5 billion tons of greenhouse gases per year - the devastating result of not only 325 coal-based plants and 315 natural gas-based plants but millions and millions of gasoline-powered vehicles.
Political change in the United States has led to more fervent investment in a variety of green energy initiatives, e.g., concentrated solar thermal plants in the Southwestern deserts, wind farms in the corridor stretching from Texas to the Dakotas, and advanced plants in geothermal hot spots that could produce large amounts of electricity.
Other projections indicate that the United States will put a price on carbon and spearhead an effort to replace the Kyoto treaty with a more effective agreement that would cap global carbon dioxide emissions and encourage all nations to invest efficiently in initiatives to reduce global warming as well as deforestation.
As more and more countries become industrialized and seek to improve their standard of living, the sun and wind are the only sources that will be able to meet future terawatt levels of power demand. It’s high time we employed natural, sustainable elements - i.e., sun, wind, air, and water - for all our future energy, fuel, and food needs. Only then will we be able to curtail the damaging effects of global climate change.