Air Force Prod Aids Coal-To-Fuel Plans

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/22/AR2008032200722.html ^

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MALMSTROM AIR FORCE BASE, Mont. (AP)

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The sooner the better

[Eric in the Ozarks]

What’s your alternative, Henry ?

[kellynla]

Anything that gets us off our dependency on foreign oil is good news.

In the mean time, drill in ANWR, on ALL coasts and lets go NUCLEAR!
If the Frog Legs can, so can we! LOL

[Emperor Palpatine]

This isn’t a new idea. The Germans did the same thing in WWII.

Having no ready natural supply of oil after the loss of their ally Romania’s oil fields and refineries when the Ninth Air Force destroyed them, they resorted to syntetic oil through coal. They had a lot of coal.

The Eighth Air Force soon discovered this and concentrated on Germany’s synthetic plants, causing the Nazi war machine to all but grind to a halt.

The Luftwaffe had more planes towards the end of the war than when they started it. They just didn’t have any gas to fly ‘em.

[SteamShovel]

"They'd like to have (coal-to-liquids) because of security concerns — a reliable source of power. They're not thinking beyond that one issue," Waxman said. "(Climate change) is also a national security concern."

The ONLY reason GW is a "national security concern" is because pinheads like Waxman will subvert national security for this non-issue.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The South African regime used the same technology to fuel itself when the guilty world decided to embargo trade.

[SERKIT]

If we can get the environmental wackos to allow "clean" nuclear power (like the Pebble Bed Reactor) then a heat-by-product can process the coal to vehicle fuel.

But, they want to keep the argument and not solve the issue. That's why we have to defeat the LibDems and Global Warming Zealots. Only then will the competitive and entrepreneurial capitalism solve problems, create more jobs, and really make a difference.

But a LibDem skull can't concurrently contain all those concepts!

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“We don't want new sources of energy that are going to make the greenhouse gas problem even worse,” House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said in a recent interview. “

Complete Idiot.

Yes Hennie. Maybe the Chinese can drill for oil 45 miles off the Florida coast instead.

[BlackjackPershing]

Pike County Kentucky is completing a plan which will build a 50,000 barrel/day CTL plant to supply coal-derived fuel to the military, either the Air Force or the Army. That one county is the 10th largest coal-producing county in the US.

[NYFriend]

The UK did something to use coal to run gas or diesel powered vehicles during the War. I don't know if it was the same process the Germans used, but I remember seeing a picture of a London bus which the caption said was running on coal.

[truthguy]

Coal to liquid is not an UNLIKELY source. This process has been know for decades. If we (United States) were smart we would use nuclear power for electricity and divert our coal resources to liquid fuels. This would be a hedge against rising oil prices. We are eventually going to have to do this so why don’t we get started NOW!

[ASOC]

A couple of Native Corps wanted to open a small (40 sq mile) strip mining operation across the inlet from Anchorage to build/run a coal to gas planr.

The Greenies killed it for now. We cudda had cheaper gas, but now pay 4x what it was just a decade ago.

If we are lucky, we will be able to get a gas pipeline from the Slope to here and use the Prudhoe Bay gas locally.

Maybe.

[RightWhale]

This isn’t a new idea.

Congress had $10 billion ready to put into synfuel plants in 1948, but oil became so cheap and plentiful just then that synfuel was forgotten until 1970.