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Author: paul carson (Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:44 am)
Title: Synfuels the way to go?
Most people are surprised to learn that we can produce gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and other petroleum products out of coal.
“Synfuels” have remarkable properties: they are high-performing substances that run in engines without any technical modification, and they burn much more cleanly than conventional fuels. The synfuel process, which is nothing like conventional coal use, removes greenhouse gases as well as toxins like sulfur, mercury and arsenic. And the technology has other applications: a synfuel plant can generate electric power make synthetic natural gas and produce the hydrogen that many believe is the energy source of the future. The state of Montana has 120 billion tones of coal more than a third of America’s reserves. That’s the liquid fuel equivalent of one quarter of the oil in the Middle East.
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