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Posted on 11/01/2010 5:26:25 AM PDT by thackney
Coal-to-liquids for Cook Inlet has been an on-again off-again topic of discussion for some 20 years, but has never happened. Now a new technology could bring synthetic jet fuel production to Southcentral.
Coal-to-liquids, or CTL, is an approach that Tyonek Native Corp. has been pursuing seriously in recent years because of plentiful coal in Southcentral. Tyonek worked first with Sasol but has recently partnered with a new player, Accelergy, John McClellan told a joint meeting of the Legislature's House and Senate energy committees recently.
There is high-quality bituminous coal all around Cook Inlet, McClellan said, but "the highest-value coal happens to lie right around Tyonek's property" on the west side of Cook Inlet. Tyonek is a surface land owner, he said, with subsurface belonging to Cook Inlet Region Inc., the Native corporation for the Anchorage region.
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Things looked good for CTL in 2008, McClellan said, when Sasol was looking at Alaska as a site for a facility. The Air Force had said CTL products will meet half of its jet fuel needs by 2016, and it had a contest for a site for a facility the Air Force would finance and build.
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McClellan said things looked pretty good until Congress passed a restriction, cutting the Air Force's ability to finance projects from 20 years to five years.
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Further congressional restrictions on CTL required that it meet or better the efficiency of a petroleum refining system.
"And that pretty much killed the ability of the Fischer-Tropsch process, which Sasol was using," McClellan said. Sasol turned its back on its U.S. projects, he said.
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Ye gods.....what ARE our politicians high on?? This is about as bad as trying to repeal the Law of Gravity, or defining pi=3.
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I think if I were a bazillion-aire, I would set up shop with one of these things in Mexico or other friendly Western Hemisphere country, ship in the coal, and sell back finished product. We are determined to not make it doable here.
Panzers ran just fine on the stuff in the 1940’s.
That is because they weren’t dependent on a US congress for approval...
technology we will never see bump.
Why not do it on some Native American reservation somewhere in the Dakotas, right in the middle of the country ? They are subject to the same laws. I think this is already being done up in Sioux City/Falls or Montana.
Native American reservations are NOT subject to the same laws.
Further congressional restrictions on CTL required that it meet or better the efficiency of a petroleum refining system.
Kind of like corn juice for fuel requirements too, /s
That’s going to have to wait until we get a President who is not a puppet.
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