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Mont. to Build Coal-To-Liquid Fuel Plant
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/061002/montana_coal_to_liquid_fuel.html?.v=1 ^
| Monday October 2, 1:57 pm ET
| Susan Gallagher, Associated Press Writer
Posted on 10/02/2006 12:24:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
10/02/2006 12:24:43 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
10/02/2006 12:26:11 PM PDT
by
techcor
To: BenLurkin
I'm sure the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, PETA, ELF, ALF, and the DNC will be whining by dinner time!!!!
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posted on
10/02/2006 12:29:47 PM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: BenLurkin
So there's that commercial with the little girl talking about the US's 250 year supply of coal!
Get It? Got It! Good!!!
To: techcor
Good. There's about 400 years of coal in Wyoming and Montana. Pipelines already exist to bring it to market.
To: BenLurkin
Worked for the Germans during WWII...
Anything to avoid sending more money to people who want to kill us
I saw one analysis on this with an economic break-even at ~$50/barrel
cost for crude..
To: BenLurkin
Workin' in a coal mine, goin' up north. Workin' in a coal mine . . . [humming. Don't know the rest of the words :-)]. Go Montana!
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posted on
10/02/2006 12:38:11 PM PDT
by
GOP Poet
To: GOP Poet
Work'n in a coal mine
ahhh goin' down, down, down
Work'n in a coal mine
whoops I mighta slipped down
To: HangnJudge
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
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posted on
10/02/2006 12:58:01 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: BenLurkin
I sold mah' soul to the company store
Ahh, great music, nothing like it coming out these days...
To: BenLurkin
"You load sixteen tons, what do you get? "
A hernia.
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posted on
10/02/2006 1:06:22 PM PDT
by
Leg Olam
("There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them." Louis Armstrong)
To: HangnJudge
"I saw one analysis on this with an economic break-even at ~$50/barrel"
That's the key to attrack venture capitalist. These things take 3-5 years to become viable.
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posted on
10/02/2006 1:06:29 PM PDT
by
griswold3
(Ken Blackwell, Ohio Governor in 2006- No!! You cannot have my governor in 2008.)
To: griswold3
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posted on
10/02/2006 1:07:43 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: BenLurkin
The technology is actually pretty well known (Fischer-Tropsch process), and has been much refined since the 1920's, when it was developed on a laboratory basis. The Germans applied the technology on an industrial basis in the latter part of WW II, and kept their planes in the air, and their tanks running, long after they were denied the Ploesti oil fields of Yugoslavia. Even today, the process is widely used in South Africa, as a means to reduce their dependence on international trade in oil.
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posted on
10/02/2006 1:09:40 PM PDT
by
alloysteel
(In war, disproportionate force is the ONLY way to assure victory and subsequent peace.)
To: BenLurkin
Without government subsidy this will go nowhere.
With government subsidy it is a waste of time.
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posted on
10/02/2006 1:21:14 PM PDT
by
Doodle
To: alloysteel; Eric in the Ozarks
The technology is actually pretty well known (Fischer-Tropsch process), Yep, for both of you. I've posted for it for quite a few years here on FR. China's doing it already. I think China is using what's called "Shockwave technology" which involves sound to increase the pressure and tempuratures to the correct points.
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posted on
10/02/2006 1:28:59 PM PDT
by
techcor
To: Lee Heggy123
"You load sixteen tons, what do you get? " Sung by another American Hero "Tennessee Ernie Ford". He was also a B-17 Driver in WW-II. He was a real patriot.
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posted on
10/02/2006 1:30:43 PM PDT
by
cpdiii
(Socialism is popular with the ruling class. It gives legitimacy to tyranny and despotism.)
To: Doodle
Without government subsidy this will go nowhere. I disagree. Without subsidy it goes as far as it can go with the price of oil around 60 dollars. Then 3 other big countries that use coal get involved. England, Poland, and Japan. Then it get really fun as OPEC tries to out produce the coal gassification countries so as to put them out of business. Oil and gas get real cheap until one of the types win. Unfortunately it may mean that OPEC wins in the long run. But, hey, that's the free market system.
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posted on
10/02/2006 1:33:12 PM PDT
by
techcor
To: techcor
tempuratures = temperatures. That's what I get for not using spell check.
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posted on
10/02/2006 1:35:05 PM PDT
by
techcor
To: BenLurkin
What are they making? Town gas? Coal gas?
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posted on
10/02/2006 1:36:32 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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