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July 28, 2010

Bixby Energy Systems Wins Two More Orders As Chinese Seize Benefits Of Its Coal-To-Clean-Gas Solution

Earlier this month we reported how Minneapolis-based clean energy technology company Bixby Energy Systems had reached a corporate milestone by shipping its first coal-to-gas unit to China, one of three units on order to that country. Now the company has gone one better, announcing that the Chinese have placed orders for two more units to help beat the severe gas shortages that hit the country last winter. After all, China has plenty of coal it can use to feed Bixby’s patent-pending coal-to-gas devolitzation units, an insatiable demand for energy and a pollution problem that needs urgent attention.

The Bixby devolitization process superheats coal, which has been pre-ground to the size of talcum powder, but, crucially, doesn’t burn the coal.  This superheating process takes place in a contained environment, preventing carbon emissions. The system doesn’t produce the heavy carbon emissions normally associated with other gasification technologies, doesn’t consume water and creates no effluent or waste byproducts other than natural gas and semi-activated carbon, a valuable...