Sentences with phrase «liquid coal makes»
As pundits have pointed out, driving a Prius on liquid coal makes it as dirty as a Hummer on regular gasoline.
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Both the Air Force in December and Airbus earlier this month completed flights powered by synfuel — liquid jet fuel made from coal or natural gas.
But rather than searching for ways to stretch the oil we still have — like a modern Hanukkah — it makes more sense to accelerate development of clean alternatives such as electric cars or biofuels from algae — and avoid dirty ones like turning coal or tar sands to liquid fuels.
Because if coal to liquids was profitable at the present price of oil, we'd be seeing someone open a coal to liquids plant and making a profit based on the difference.
China make coal to liquid and want to end one child policy.
It also makes some false solutions look a lot more appealing to the public, like liquid coal or deforestation diesel, while providing the incentive to use «unconventional oil» such as Canadian tar sands or Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil.
Andy, thank you for writing about synthetic liquid fuels made from dirty coal and other low grade fossil fuels.
On the flip side, the Defense Department is also studying how to make liquid fuels from coal.
Plenty of coal to run high tech civilization at least another hundred years even with substantial economic growth by burning it in conventional coal - fired electric plants and making liquid hydrocarbon automotive fuels from it.
«Using and liquefying coal is an available technology, but under current conditions, there would be a great deal of CO2 released from making liquids out of coal.
«Closet carbon», as this paper has quoted me calling the carbon released in making «bio» fuels like corn ethanol or coal to liquids, would be taxed, too, no exceptions.
The price of gasoline, and of liquid fuel made from coal, would reflect the carbon tax, which would pay the cost of taking that carbon back out of the atmosphere.
No one is proposing to make all liquid fuels from coal.
We still need liquid fuels for a long time to come, but making them from coal is an unsustainable solution.
Collecting liquid carbon dioxide by pipeline from large plants powered by coal is designed to allow steel, cement and chemical industries to continue to operate without making climate change worse.
Alternative liquid fuels include ethanol, biodiesel and methanol, and synthetic gasoline and diesel made from natural gas, coal, or other feedstocks.
Second, relying on unconventional oil like tar sands and liquid coal to make up a supply shortage, as the oilmen say we must, would be climate catastrophe.
You build a nuclear powered hydrogen factory near the coal and feed that hydrogen into a coal to liquid plant to make any fuel you want.
It would also be interseting to use coal and nuclear together to make liquid fuels for transportation.
Here's how this could happen: Without Renewable Alternatives, Liquid Coal Could Win the Day As world oil reserves begin critically depleting and the necessary investments aren't made to electrify the world's transportation fleet and a larger switch to renewable energy made, then it is likely that use of coal - to - liquids fuels (which have 40 % higher emissions than oil) will rCoal Could Win the Day As world oil reserves begin critically depleting and the necessary investments aren't made to electrify the world's transportation fleet and a larger switch to renewable energy made, then it is likely that use of coal - to - liquids fuels (which have 40 % higher emissions than oil) will rcoal - to - liquids fuels (which have 40 % higher emissions than oil) will rise.
To some degree we may have lost control of liquids accounting, and we are seeing more from coal and natural gas to make up for it.
TransGas Development Systems LLC (TGDS) plans to build a $ 3B coal - to - liquids (CTL) plant in Mingo County, West Virginia, according to company announcement made during the West Virginia Energy Summit....