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 »
Posted by Kevin Barry
I am not a strong advocate of coal as a primary energy source, especially in a massive country like China where emissions are largely uncontrolled. I believe that all alternatives to fossil fuels should be pursued aggressively. Nevertheless, unproved assumptions about the causes of climate change have no place in setting policy, especially when those assumptions result in economically, and therefore socially, damaging legislation.