In South Africa they have coal gasification plants. They can produce a barrel of oil from coal for $25.
We could produce oil for $25 a barrel from coal. The administration and the neo-cons are doing their best to block coal gasification plants in this country. They're in the hip pockets of the big oil companies.
They will do anything to keep gas at $4 a gallon and the oil companies profitable at the cost of the country.
Ronnie Kelley
Syracuse
They will do anything to keep gas at $4 a gallon and the oil companies profitable at the cost of the country.
Ronnie Kelley
Syracuse
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karl wrote on Jul 22, 2008 11:01 AM:
I admit my idiocy today!!!! "
Leon Kapowski wrote on Jul 21, 2008 10:34 AM:
Where's your proof? From everything I've read, it's the environmentalist groups and the democrats who are blocking this kind of thing.
From your other letters Ronnie, you do an awful lot of finger pointing, but not much backing up of your statements with any kind of fact or reference. It's more or less just your own opinion, which isn't necessarily based in truth. "
Andy b wrote on Jul 21, 2008 10:10 AM:
irritated wrote on Jul 21, 2008 6:54 AM:
chris van note wrote on Jul 20, 2008 2:03 PM:
Coal gasification offers one of the most versatile and clean ways to convert coal into electricity, hydrogen, and other valuable energy products.
The first coal gasification electric power plants are now operating commercially in the United States and in other nations, and many experts predict that coal gasification will be at the heart of the future generations of clean coal technology plants for several decades into the future.
Rather than burning coal directly, gasification (a thermo-chemical process) breaks down coal - or virtually any carbon-based feedstock - into its basic chemical constituents. In a modern gasifier, coal is typically exposed to hot steam and carefully controlled amounts of air or oxygen under high temperatures and pressures. Under these conditions, carbon molecules in coal break apart, setting off chemical reactions that typically produce a mixture of carbon monoxide, hydrogen and other gaseous compounds.
Gasification, in fact, may be one of the best ways to produce clean-burning hydrogen for tomorrow's automobiles and power-generating fuel cells. Hydrogen and other coal gases can also be used to fuel power-generating turbines, or as the chemical "building blocks" for a wide range of commercial products. "
karl wrote on Jul 20, 2008 8:51 AM:
Next?.... "