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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Roberto Escardo
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by Roberto Escardo - Mar. 29, 2009

An incremental innovation to a known process. Reducing CO2 is a matter of science and technology but mainly of politics. BTW: Megawatts are a measure of power, not energy. An unaceptable error in a publication as Wired.

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