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 Stories About: coal AND energy AND carbon sequestration AND politics AND coal-to-liquid fuel
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Run your car on coal? Maybe not
CTL fuels: still a bad idea |
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25 Mar 2008 |
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| The following is a guest essay from Peter Montague, executive director of the Environmental Research Foundation. ----- As the price of oil rises, coal company executives smell a huge opportunity: they are planning to ramp up a new global industry to turn coal into liquid fuels (diesel, kerosene and jet fuel), plus basic feedstocks for the chemical industry to make plastics, fertilizers, solvents, pesticides, and more. The coal-to-chemicals industry is already going ga ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, carbon sequestration, politics, coal-to-liquid fuel (all these topics) |
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