Plans for a new plant to convert coal to liquid fuels.
"...…………… West Virginia-based Domestic Synthetic Fuels plans to break ground in October on a new fuel conversion center, which, with the help of natural gas, will convert the Mountain State’s coal into gasoline, low-sulfur diesel and even aviation fuel. …………………"
https://www.herald-dispatch.com/_recent_news/new- ... 591ca.html
I wonder how similar the process is to what Germany did making synthetic oil out of coal during WWII ?
Paul
New coal-to-liquids plant
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It will never compete economically.Sunny Boy wrote: ↑Mon. Jul. 15, 2019 6:27 pmPlans for a new plant to convert coal to liquid fuels.
"...…………… West Virginia-based Domestic Synthetic Fuels plans to break ground in October on a new fuel conversion center, which, with the help of natural gas, will convert the Mountain State’s coal into gasoline, low-sulfur diesel and even aviation fuel. …………………"
https://www.herald-dispatch.com/_recent_news/new- ... 591ca.html
I wonder how similar the process is to what Germany did making synthetic oil out of coal during WWII ?
Paul
Sasol in South Africa has been doing this commercially and totally uneconomically on a large scale for decades. And gasoline sells for ~3 times more in much of the rest of the non-Arab world vs. here in the USA.
Unless I missed it, the article doesn't specify the method, but the "Fischer-Tropsch" method has been around since at least 1925.
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And today's plan is to sequester the very heavy CO2 emissions from production of this into the deep subterranean by injection wells...or the deal is off!
I say use some of that CO2 to grow beaucoup algae to make even more fuels...
I say use some of that CO2 to grow beaucoup algae to make even more fuels...
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Yep Blue-Green Oil...
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