Not exact matches
While power generation can be shifted to other energy
sources rather than coal, it's not so easy to find substitutes for
liquid transportation fuels like petrol, diesel
fuel, or jet
fuel.
As to
transportation or industry the truth is there is no other portable energy
source that offers quite the concentration of energy or the abundance found of the original bounty found in
liquid fossil
fuels.
The study also found that both BTL - RC - CCS (biomass - to -
liquids, with recycling of unconverted syngas to maximize FTL output and CCS) and cellulosic ethanol with CCS (EtOH - CCS) have negative GHGI emission values that can be exploited to offset GHG missions from difficult to decarbonize energy
sources such as
transportation fuels derived from crude oil.
As we consider buildings as the largest
source of GHG emissions in developed societies, we must consider the largest
liquid chemical consumer of fossil
fuels:
transportation.