Clean low energy nuclear reactions (CLENRs) could provide new bridge to the future for the global oil and coal industries.



Potentially major future commercial opportunity would be to develop the capability to convert PAHs and other types of aromatics into CLENR fuels ‘burned’ in relatively unremarkable, compact metallic reactors that utilize selected segments of Carbon target transmutation network discussed herein to produce very low-cost process heat.



At that point in the development of the technology, various commercial versions of CLENR power generation systems would begin to physically resemble present day chemically fueled power sources without having any of their present problems, such as huge CO2 emissions; CLENR-fired boilers for industry are obvious product possibility.



On an energy-equivalent BTU basis, PAHs and related aromatics might easily be worth a million times more $$$ as CLENR fuels, as opposed to their being used to produce chemical feedstocks or to undergo cracking of the aromatic rings to create types of hydrocarbon chains suitable for vehicles, or in case of coal, simply burning pulverized coal with Oxygen to create process heat, H2O, as well as gases and dirty particulates.



If CLENRs’ potential technological capabilities were eventually realized, global oil and coal industries’ even more profitable bridge to the future could include their traditional extraction and processing of hydrocarbons and coal for use in today’s fossil fuels and chemical feedstocks, as well as a new business: producing revolutionary CLENR fuels.