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On the recordMay 23, 2001
we helped fund research that they felt very close to working using ultrasound, one type of ultrasound to clean out the old well bore, the other kind to go out and loosen the oil from the rock crevices and let it flow into the well. They have successfully increased production with ultrasound. Now it is a matter of the next study is going to put it out into the field in a number of wells, and if that works, we will be able to get more oil. But those are the sorts of things we need to do. I was at Penn State recently. They have a project there that has been completed in the laboratory, and now it is moving into the refinery where they are going to take western Pennsylvania coal and make jet fuel and have a carbon product that will be used by Pennsylvania's famous carbon industry. So they will take coal and turn it into two carbon items. One is jet fuel and the other one a carbon product that will be used in manufacturing, and they also have a fluidized bed boiler that can be implemented and could be used by hospitals, could be used by schools, could be used by factories, that can burn any fuel.
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John W. Peterson
Pennsylvania

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Discussing advancements in energy production and coal-to-fuel technology.

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