[Willie Green]

Related thread: Coal-to-liquid solution for energy woes

[Willie Green]

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[First_Salute]

Hannibal Twin-8 Bump.

[KriegerGeist]

I remember when I was a kid, my dad taking me to the plant in his town in northwestern Wisconsin that made coal oil. It smelled somewhat different than kerosene. They made oil for lamps and stoves before electricity. I remember the mountain of coal brought in by the trains outside the plant that would be brought in and process it inside somehow converting the coal into coal oil. I didn't know this was a new process...

[RS]

" Cheap gasoline made coal-to-diesel economically indefensible in the 1990s. But now, with oil prices stuck at near-record highs, the idea is beginning to gain traction."

So this supplies an expensive source of diesel...
... and all they have to do is turn the spigots on again after we have spent the billions on these plants.

[backhoe]

A post from the Vault of fogotten posts:

Oil from Coal....Boon, Bane, or Boondoggle?

[StACase]

LINK

[nightdriver]

"Mike Ewall, an environmental activist from Philadelphia, said it would be far better to plant beach grass on the culm piles than to use up the coal."

One would expect an "environmental activist" to badmouth a project like this one. It doesn't contribute to his agenda of destroying capitalism in America.

admittedly, this process still had the problems of getting coal to the processing plant, but in this instance, having the feedstock already sitting there provides not only the incentive to use this process, it provides a working model to research and improve the process.

I say kudos to the enterprise.

[struwwelpeter]

Ukraine has a lot of waste from their mines, but they prefer propane in their trucks.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

yawn, this technology is ancient. First the Germans in WW 2, then the South Africans during the the embargos and boycotts.

South Africa had the most advanced SASOL coal conversion plants in the world after the White hating US/UN banned all petroleum products being shipped to South Africa in years past.

[Richard-SIA]

Or, would it be simpler and more efficient to simply use the culm in one of the "waste into oil" machines that have been discussed here in the past?

One of those "waste into oil" machines is supposed to be built nearby, I want a tour when it is completed!