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businesses that have been undermined. The fly ash and bottom ash will be treated with the pH balancing chemicals,
when the slurry is turned into foam, to help neutralize acid water drainage caused by the previous coal-mine fire.
What the Future Holds
L
ooking forward, we designed a method to capture the CO
2
created by all coal-mine fires and prevent this global-
warming gas from entering the atmosphere. With this method, we will use the compressed foam as a transport medium
to inject the CO
2
back into the burning coal mine. After the coal-mine fire has been extinguished, we will capture CO
2
from other sources and continue to use CO
2
foam to displace methane gasses that will accumulate in the upper areas
near the roof of the coal mine. The methane gas is 20 times more global warming than CO
2
. We will drill bore holes into
the areas where the methane collects and use the methane gas to power local electric generators to produce renewable
energy. We will capture the CO
2
produced by the electric generators, and recycle this CO
2
to produce CO
2
foam, and
inject it back into the mine fromwhich it came from. This then gives us a way to generate power and prevent coal-mine
CO
2
and methane from being released into the earth
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s atmosphere. We have acquired a patent pending for this process.
Our plans are to use the advanced methods of CO
2
capture and to use the CO
2
as a fire extinguishing gas
encapsulated in the foam to be injected into the coal-mine fires in China, which are emitting CO
2
greenhouse
gasses, equal to 50
100% of the total volume of all car and truck emissions released in the United States
(Furchtgott-Roth, 2008).
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In short, we will use the CO
2
being produced by China burning coal mines, to generate the foam, and extinguish
the fire. The cavities created by the fire will be used to permanently sequester the CO
2
foam.
The Grand Finale
A
fter we have extinguished all of the world
s coal-mine fires, and gasoline has reached $10.00 dollars a liter, we
will add methane generating microbes to our foamable solution and continue injecting a special formula of foam
into the coal mines to create a microbial biosphere that produces an endless source of inexpensive methane gas to
power the world Mother Natures way!
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Important Terms
aerated foam
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
back pressure
nitrogen
compressed air foam systems (CAFS)
nitrogen membrane separation unit
pyrolyze
gas recovery system
roofing out
gas-displacement
subsidence
inert
subterranean
inertization
transducers
laminar flow
ventilation
References
Chemguard and Specialty Chemicals, 2007. Chemguard Gas-Displacement Foam Dilutes CO in Virginia Mine,
Mansfield, Texas: Chemguard, http://www.chemguard.com/about-us/news/2007/chemguard-gas-displacement-
foam.htm (accessed September 24, 2008).
Cummins Industries Corporation Texas based company 1990
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2009.
Furchtgott-Roth, D., 2008, The wrong fire.
(July 13).
Hookham, M., 2004. New multi-class foam suppresses fire.
New York Sun
(March 1), Leederville,
Western Australia http://www.cafsco.com/Longwall_News_Article.pdf (accessed September 23, 2008).
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