I’d like to see the coal to oil process perfected.The Germans did it in WW2,why don’t we do that?
“I’d like to see the coal to oil process perfected.The Germans did it in WW2,why don’t we do that?”
It requires a massive amount of energy to do it and that makes it a dirty process. The only way to clean it up is to use some from of nuclear energy to do the conversion process.
Old fart Demodog politicians are too busy playing with their, 20 or 30 something year-old left wing, animal rights supporting, astrology believing, environmentalist girlfriends to support anything that might actually work. If they stand up for energy independence the girlfriend won’t take her pants off. I believe that lots of times it is as simple as that
That said the reason it isn’t done.
More information on the Fischer-Tropsch process:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_process
“I’d like to see the coal to oil process perfected.The Germans did it in WW2,why don’t we do that?”
It is only economic at moderately high oil prices. Oil is becoming less scarce, prices are down.
Maybe in 50 years...
S Africa did this after the world cut them off over apartheid.
It didn’t work out too well. Check the history.
Plunk your money down. Just don’t spend mine trying to do it. I don’t subscribe to a “we” policy in energy. Fracking was an I and me endeavor private individuals spending private capital. Same way it should be for syn fuels.
Just use coal as coal.
The technology for clean use of coal in a modern coal-fired station is extremely good these days.