Bad News: Scientists Make Cheap Gas From Coal

Wired by Alexis Madrigal | Mar. 28, 2009 (News Report)

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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Mike LaBonte
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 by Mike LaBonte - Mar. 29, 2009

This goes out of it's way to discuss the negatives of CTL success, an unusual counter to the typical press release approach of glorifying the new technology. The imbalance is not that bad though, and a pretty good overview education can be gleaned from this story. Odd that none of the links provided are to the Science article that is the key source.

A carbon tax can't arrive soon enough.

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