1 posted on
04/19/2006 5:56:28 AM PDT by
aculeus
To: aculeus
According to the Governors of WV and MT, the break-even point for coal gasification is $43/bbl.
2 posted on
04/19/2006 6:00:48 AM PDT by
Roccus
To: aculeus
I believe during the latter part of WWII, the german luftwaffe planes were flown with a fuel derived from coal.
3 posted on
04/19/2006 6:02:22 AM PDT by
IrishMike
(Dry Powder is a plus)
To: aculeus
IIRC, Shell Oil is involved in a joint venture with PA and some other entities, building a gasification plant in PA right now.
4 posted on
04/19/2006 6:03:34 AM PDT by
Roccus
To: aculeus
Long term contracts at a firm fixed price can redistribute the risk faced due to Arab, Mexican or Russian price arbitrage. Span the contract over about 7 years, and a potential arbitrager will suffer a great deal in the process.
7 posted on
04/19/2006 6:21:52 AM PDT by
.cnI redruM
(Watching the Left turn on Senator McCain amuses me somehow....)
To: aculeus
9 posted on
04/19/2006 6:25:28 AM PDT by
techcor
To: aculeus
having sat behind a diesel bus, there is nothing clean about diesel
10 posted on
04/19/2006 6:25:58 AM PDT by
ConsentofGoverned
(if a sucker is born every minute, what are the voters?)
To: aculeus
18 posted on
04/19/2006 7:27:17 AM PDT by
Malsua
To: aculeus; colorcountry
Big Red gets a new life...woo hoo!
24 posted on
04/19/2006 7:53:11 AM PDT by
Utah Binger
(Southern Utah, where the world comes to see America!)
To: aculeus
I grew up with Diesel engines. I have long thought the turbo charged 4 cylinder diesel engine is perfect for personal transportation. There are numerous ways to make clean burning fuel for them from renewable sources, including used cooking oil. The clean burning fuels do not belch black smoke. In fact, a diesel burning fuel made from cooking oil creates a smell like french fries cooking.
This discovery w/ coal is yet another source of fuel we can be self-dependent upon.
I can buy biodiesel in my part of the country for less than unleaded gas, but the choice of vehicles is still pretty narrow. Hopefully this will change soon.
30 posted on
04/19/2006 8:09:58 AM PDT by
IamConservative
(Who does not trust a man of principle? A man who has none.)
To: aculeus
I'm waiting for the turbo diesel hybrid, or just a plain turbo diesel would be good too.
35 posted on
04/19/2006 8:26:52 AM PDT by
Moonman62
(Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
To: aculeus
36 posted on
04/19/2006 8:31:10 AM PDT by
roaddog727
(eludium PU36 explosive space modulator)
To: aculeus
Oil is still sucked from the ground at $2 a barrel. Nothing comes close to competing with this. However, when easy oil is gone, these processes will be used, and oil will be in the vicinity of $200 a barrel. It is the modern thing to do in business to find fees for this and fees for that. Look at the telephone bill and all the little charges for taxes and other things they make; everything comes with charges and fuel for vehicles is no different. There will be fees for gasoline from coal that haven't yet been invented in legislatures and boardrooms. We will view $3 gasoline as the good old days, and pretty soon.
46 posted on
04/19/2006 9:06:47 AM PDT by
RightWhale
(Off touch and out of base)
To: aculeus
The Fischer-Tropsch process has been used for decades. South Africa's SASOL.
53 posted on
04/19/2006 12:35:19 PM PDT by
Fred Hayek
(Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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