The End of Oil? Breakthrough Turns Coal Into Clean Diesel

National Geographic ^ | 4/18/2006 | Sean Markey

[Red Badger]

A little old, but still ping worthy.........

[Red Badger]

Rest in Peace, old friend, your work is finished.......

Diesel "Ping" List: If you want on or off the DIESEL "KNOCK" LIST just FReepmail me........

This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days......

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Fischer-Tropsch rocks.

[Blue Turtle]

Bush's fault.

[CPT Clay]

ping

[tomzz]

Diesal fuel recently has been twenty or thirty cents a gallon more than premium gas. THAT will have to stop before I ever buy a diesal car.

[lesser_satan]

Cool! Thanks for posting this.

[SmoothTalker]

"Diesal fuel recently has been twenty or thirty cents a gallon more than premium gas. THAT will have to stop before I ever buy a diesal car."

Of course you also get much better mileage and longevity out of a diesel. The torque is nice too.

[MadeInAmerica]

You can take my spark plugs when you pry them from my cold dead 66 Chevelle.

[Red Badger]

Fischer-Tropsch rocks.

What label do they record on? Coal Dust Records?.......

[Alter Kaker]

Diesal fuel recently has been twenty or thirty cents a gallon more than premium gas. THAT will have to stop before I ever buy a diesal car.

Why? Diesel cars are FAR more fuel efficient, so the extra 5 or 10% you spend at the pump (likely only temporary anyway) is easily made up for by the fact that you have to go to the pump less often.

[Red Badger]

You could always drop in a diesel............

[Red Badger]

...mileage and longevity out of a diesel.

Yes, people tend to forget, or do not know that diesel engines parts are made of tougher stuff than gasoline engines..........

[Duke Phelan]

Environmental groups will be all over this to stop it, just like they oppose windmills because they are giant bird blenders.

The only way to get coal is to mine it, and that would mean hurting mother earth to these moon-bats. They are against any mining and try to stop it at all costs, which is one reason metal prices have been climbing due to reduced exploration directly attributed to these type of groups.

Don't expect this to get too far unless the U.S. Air Force starts supplementing it's jet fuel supplies with this technology, after the recent successful test on a B-52 of this fuel, which would force it's adoption.

[RightWhale]

Might be a coal gassification or coal liquification plant coming to Anchorage in support of a chemical plant of some kind. There isn't much actual manufacturing industry in Alaska at this point in time.

[HEY4QDEMS]

>>>>You can take my spark plugs when you pry them from my cold dead 66 Chevelle.<<<<

Fear not, if this technology takes off, it will surely drive gas prices lower and your Chevelle will be cheaper to drive.

[MadeInAmerica]

It just wouldn't be the same

[Tailback]

Great technology, all it takes is a buttload of cheap electricity to make it profitable. What's that? Electricity isn't cheap? Crud, back to the drawing table.

[Red Badger]

Beautiful!..............

[djf]

"mid sized hydrocarbons with 4-8 carbon atoms and can't be used as fuel..."?????


I need to go down to the local store and get some high OCTANE gas.

Come to think of it, I need a new BUTANE lighter. And while I'm out, I might as well fill up my PROPANE tank.

(OK, OK, I admit Propane is C3, but you get the idea)