[hinckley buzzard]

Too bad Obama intends to bankrupt the coal companies.

[org.whodat]

I think the South African companies have already patented this! Are so it was posted a few weeks back. Theryus are whatever, posted it, the one that posts all the time about the oil companies.

Maybe thackney is the posters name, something like that Search under energy.

[stylin19a]

I wonder if the output varies depending on the rank of coal and would it matter ?

[truthguy]

German Scientists....arguably among the best in the world at that time

I don't think there is much argument about that.

[Petronski]

Leftists will smear this as a right wing plan to bring radioactive Nazi gasoline to American pumps.

[Petronski]

No, not plan.

A right-wing scheme...

[Iris7]

This post is technically correct in every respect.

Politics is the only obstacle for implementation.

Oil shale and similar mineral deposits (tar sands, heavy tar like deposits as in Venezuela) are natural feedstocks alongside coal for conversion to liquid fuels processing.

[truthguy]

This is such a no brainer that I would have thought even the Democrats could figure it out. But then again with Obama and his sycophants in charge I'm not surprised.

We generate a lot of our electricity with coal-in fact more than half. Coal can be liquefied to a high quality diesel or even aviation fuel. What if we build Nuclear Power Plants to generate our electricity and switched the coal that would have gone into production of electricity over to make liquefied fuel for transportation. This of course depends on the price of oil. At low oil prices it's cheaper to get our transportation fuels from oil but at some high prices coal could be competitive.

And by the way the same is true for natural gas. Natural gas can also be an effective transportation fuel. Using natural gas to generate baseline electrical power is nothing short of criminal. Let's pursue both these technologies.

[2harddrive]

The Fed.gov will stop this, just like it stopped the idea of making ethanol from ethane gas!

[NormsRevenge]

The Sasol Ltd. plant in Secunda, South Africa, alone converts coal to 150,000 barrels (6.3 million gallons) of liquid fuel each day.

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Secunda in the TransVaal is a smelly dirty place, at least it was 20 years ago, spent a month there.. at that time , they had erected high rocket nets around the Gasification facilities to counter rocket attacks by rebels.

Looks like Obama is taking us in a Mad Max energy direction.

[conservative cat]

It’s a crying shame when I find that Hitler was a better leader than Obambi (minus the racial hygiene and invading other countries, of course.)

[backhoe]

From my "stack of really old ( 12-31-01 )stuff"--

Oil from Coal....Boon, Bane, or Boondoggle?

[Hop A Long Cassidy]

pro-energy bump.

double pro-nuclear bump.

[Mr. Lucky]

Your opinion would be much appreciated by all.