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Posted on 12/31/2001 5:37:24 AM PST by backhoe
On the way to "looking up other things" I ran across an old subject- converting coal & other solid-fuel products to liquid or gaseous fuel.
Pioneered by Nazi Germany during WWII, it was also used in South Africa during sanctions against that country.
America has some of the world's largest coal reserves, so the question becomes, "is it a viable alternative to petroleum products which we now import from hostile lands?"
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In reviewing this, note the references to early efforts- South Africa circa 1890, New York City in WWII, and the inter-war years activity of Standard Oil.
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Everyone in Alberta knows quite a bit about the oil, gas and cattle industries, even those who never worked in one of them!
i remember in the late seventies and early eighties they were gearing up for colorado oil shale near parachute colorado. hoards of people arrived. construction companies built hundreds of houses.
meanwhile, the left was gearing up for a propaganda war. a journalist friend of mine invited me to go along in an suv to look at the surface mining. the trip was arranged by a college professor who got the mining company to permit him to pass the corporate security. my hosts discussed their propaganda task.
then, poof! opec lowered the price of oil and everything disappeared. boom to bust.
Just anecdotally, I recall hearing that the Germans had a lot of problems with fuel & lube oil gotten from coal... supposedly it was not as good as that cracked from liquid petroleum.... but this is from a long-ago memory, and not reliable.
The bigger point is, however, that even without going more heavily nuclear ( which I think should be top priority ) we have plenty of energy on our own continent, and offshore, that it is the height of folly to depend on those thugs in the middle east for oil & gas.
By the way, I keep forgetting to add these links:
Oil may not be a dwindling resource after all:
The world has more oil not less
The Origin of Methane (and Oil) in the Crust of the Earth
Thomas Gold
U.S.G.S. Professional Paper 1570, The Future of Energy Gases, 1993
PETROLEUM RESERVES EVALUATED WITH MODERN PETROLEUM SCIENCE
Another Washington Post article here
And how costly was clinton's celebrity-driven scam in Utah?
The Utah Coal Lockup: A trillion dollar Lippo payoff?
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/lippo.htm
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the nuclear battle was fought and lost a generation ago when jane fonda made that anti-nuclear movie, and many people believed it. what a cheap piece of propaganda.
there's oil off the california coast but baboxer isn't going to let go of it.
Yep, "The China Syndrome"-- good example of why people should not accept celebrities as experts on anything except what they do for a living.
On the bright side, a whole generation has grown up with Homer Simpson working in a nuclear plant ( yes, I know he's a 'toon, but pop culture has serious influence! ) and he's still OK....
Seriously, what we need is a "re-educate the public" program about how safe US Navy reactors are, how drilling offshore causes less pollution that natural seepage, etc.
Bump
Anything into Oil(solution to dependence on foregn oil?)
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