[topher]

An old article. There is now a startup company using the method that was being developed in 2008 at UC Santa Barbara.

The other process was developed by a company in Texas.

Supposedly the cost to make a barrel of gasoline was $25 for the Texas process. That would not include the cost of the natural gas, but in some oil producing fields, the "natural gas" is discarded as it is not feasible to build pipelines.

[Red Badger]

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[Red Badger]

We may actually use Unicorn Farts!...............

[PGR88]

I’m constantly amazed by the problems american can solve and the improvements and advances we can seemingly make out of the blue.

The economy is in a race. On one hand, we have the dead hand of Government and the Fed, taking our increased productivity through inflation, taxes and destructive debt for spending

On the other hand, we have constant technological and productivity gains in the wider economy, which keep our standing of living afloat in the face of theft from the other side.

[Red Badger]

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[thackney]

If the process was as economic as they claimed, in the past 5 years they would have built more than the original pilot plant. They have not.

http://www.synfuels.com/Plant.html

[EternalVigilance]

I must admit I’ve never heard the term “a barrel of gasoline” before.

[cicero2k]

Works out to $0.60 for the catalyst process, per gallon.

Figure a similar amount for the raw gas.

Net cost around $1.20 per gallon.

I’d say this is economical, if you belive that oil itself does not suddenly become cheap or natural gas become expensive.

[American Constitutionalist]

** process to convert coal and coal-bed methane into diesel **
Can someone tell me why we can't use our own coal here in the USA to produce diesel fuels ?

Let me guess, the EPA ? to dirty to use ? to costly ?

A lot of people don't realize is that during WWII Germany used " Syngas " to run over 500,000 vehicles, Sweden 73,000, France 65,000, Denmark 10,000, Finland 43,000, that's about 700,000 vehicles during WWII that ran on woodgas or " SYNGAS ".
Yes, they used wood as a fuel believe it or not.
Propane, butane, diesel, gasoline types of fuels can be extracted from wood also.
A lot of cities here in the US mainly on the east coast used " Usersgas " or a type of syngas that was extracted from coal to run those gas lamps in the cities up until WWII.
With all the abundance of natural resources and technology we have there is no reason or excuse for us to be dependent on foreign oil.

[SharpRightTurn]

I had not heard about this process. Thanks for posting, topher.

Do you happen to know how many mcf (1,000 cubic feet) of natural gas it would take to make a barrel of oil involving this new process?

[GOPJ]

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[ckilmer]

Supposedly the cost to make a barrel of gasoline was $25 for the Texas process. That would not include the cost of the natural gas, but in some oil producing fields, the “natural gas” is discarded as it is not feasible to build pipelines.
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You can see pictures from space of the huge flare off of natural gas being done in Eagle Ford and the Baaken formation.