Bad News: Scientists Make Cheap Gas From Coal

Electric cars have been getting a lot of buzz lately, but a more immediately viable transportation fuel of the future could be liquid derived from coal. Scientists have devised a new way to transform coal into gas for your car using far less energy than the current process. The advance makes scaling up the environmentally unfriendly fuel more economical than greener alternatives. Full Story »

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Kenneth Sibbett
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by Kenneth Sibbett - Mar. 28, 2009

A report on how to turn coal into fuel. One-sided, forgetting about the greenies. Will make a lot of environmental mad.

If,and I say if, somehow we needed this for national defense, would I even consider the idea.

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