Hitler made his own Oil from Coal so with all the tech today Germany should have no trouble making Gas
—”Germany should have no trouble making Gas”
Two big problems it would take years to implement and the water usage is very high (ENVIRONMENTAL).
Just before I retired at BP, one group in the building was celebrating!! Their results were very positive and the lot of them were taken out for a very nice lunch...
I can tell of it now that my NDA is expired and it is public knowledge. They developed a successful COAL TO OIL process which was sold to the Chinese for hundreds of millions of dollars! And soon started construction...
China builds plant to turn coal into barrels of oil
“The United States, Australia and India are among those countries looking at CTL technology but are constrained by environmental concerns associated with the process which releases excessive amounts of carbon gases into the atmosphere and consumes huge amounts of water.”
The British used to use the gas from coking coal to run the street lights...hence the term “town gas”.
Fortunately the Germans have windmills and solar panels with will provide all their energy this winter. They should be crowing about how they are the first country to “transition” (quite a popular term these days).