—”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.”
Wasn’t Shell involved with some such project in SW Pennsylvania back around 2008?
I seem to remember hearing at the time that over a $40/bbl price for crude would make the process profitable.