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A future without cars
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A future without cars
Jeremy Parker wrote:
I understand that making gasoline form coal becomes economical when the oil price gets to be about $60. There's quite a lot of coal about Last I heard the price of oil was something like $70, so we should be seeing this happen any day now if it is true. But somehow I doubt that the process has really been developed to the point of being feasable. Apparently it was used by the Germans during WWII when we cut off their oil supplies, but it was a filthy process. Although there is quite a bit of coal about, they tend now to just remove all the land above it to get at the coal. Lovely future we have in store. -- David L. Johnson If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw |
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A future without cars
"David L. Johnson" wrote in message ... Jeremy Parker wrote: I understand that making gasoline form coal becomes economical when the oil price gets to be about $60. There's quite a lot of coal about Last I heard the price of oil was something like $70, so we should be seeing this happen any day now if it is true. But somehow I doubt that the process has really been developed to the point of being feasable. Apparently it was used by the Germans during WWII when we cut off their oil supplies, but it was a filthy process. [snip] And the same process was used in South Africa when it was being boycotted over apartheid. One didn't hear of driving being greatly affected by that. That was recent enough that no doubt Sasol, the local oil company there, would still have a fair amount of expertise Jeremy parker |
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A future without cars (was: Carbon Footprint)
On 2007-04-09, Jeremy Parker wrote:
I understand that making gasoline form coal becomes economical when the oil price gets to be about $60. There's quite a lot of coal about It's only economical if you ignore the pollution costs. And using it would dump even more hitherto sequestered CO2 into the atmosphere. -- John ) |
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A future without cars
On 2007-04-12, Jeremy Parker wrote:
"David L. Johnson" wrote in message ... Jeremy Parker wrote: I understand that making gasoline form coal becomes economical when the oil price gets to be about $60. There's quite a lot of coal about Last I heard the price of oil was something like $70, so we should be seeing this happen any day now if it is true. But somehow I doubt that the process has really been developed to the point of being feasable. Apparently it was used by the Germans during WWII when we cut off their oil supplies, but it was a filthy process. [snip] And the same process was used in South Africa when it was being boycotted over apartheid. One didn't hear of driving being greatly affected by that. That was recent enough that no doubt Sasol, the local oil company there, would still have a fair amount of expertise And that worked to a large extent because the SA apartheid government didn't give a rip about the environmental impact in the Bantustans where the coal was mined and processed. -- John ) |
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A future without cars (was: Carbon Footprint)
"John Thompson" wrote in message ... On 2007-04-09, Jeremy Parker wrote: I understand that making gasoline form coal becomes economical when the oil price gets to be about $60. There's quite a lot of coal about It's only economical if you ignore the pollution costs. And using it would dump even more hitherto sequestered CO2 into the atmosphere. -- John ) Power production from coal mines is not what it use to be. they are progressive too |
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