To: Coleus
I think the South African companies have already patented this! Are so it was posted a few weeks back. Theryus are whatever, posted it, the one that posts all the time about the oil companies.
Maybe thackney is the posters name, something like that Search under energy.
4 posted on
02/23/2009 8:30:56 PM PST by
org.whodat
(Auto unions bad: Machinists union good=Hypocrisy)
To: org.whodat; thackney
Thackney brings considerable petro expertise to bear on FR.
6 posted on
02/23/2009 8:34:12 PM PST by
Petronski
(For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
To: org.whodat
The technology in most part is in the public domain. Sasol does have patents. This is not a serious obstacle however.
13 posted on
02/23/2009 8:46:30 PM PST by
Iris7
("Do not live lies!" ...Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
To: org.whodat
Sasol has patented some process but does not control the only coal-to-liquid processes in use. Sasol in Africa is probably the biggest commercial operation.
Germany also did this during WWII to suplement fuel supply.
25 posted on
02/24/2009 5:08:00 AM PST by
thackney
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