[Young Werther]

My nephew is a Chemical Engineer who works at the Beulah Plant. He recently attended a meeting in Houston where construction of a similar plant would be constrcted. It's product would be GASOLINE! I wish that Romney would pick up this idea and run with it. He can point to the Solyendra Stupidity and match it to the Beulah Blast. T-Shirt revenue is for Free Republics.

[cicero2k]

If only it was Cola, then mayor Bloomberg would be happy.

Seriously, this is the future. We need liquid transportation fuels. It’s a huge capital investment, but has a track record. Of course the future location is Texas.

We should do this in Colorado or California, but both places are infected, politically speaking.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Where is the synthetic gas sold ?
What is the price, fob the Beulah plant ?

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I always wondered where the bubbles in my cola came from...

[woodenickel]

I worked on this project many moons ago. It was way ahead of its time. Hard to believe it was 25 yeas ago. I must be getting old.

[njslim]

Fischer Tropsch process

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_process

It was how the Nazis made gasoline/diesel to run their
panzers

Used to work for Exxon - had whole library of studies
on how to turn coal to liquid fuel

Problem always been cost

[bmwcyle]

There you see, more green jobs that the DEMS created. /sarcasm

[Young Werther]

I apologize for the mispelling. It's a Coal Gasification Plant. My nephew does have a joke about this. The CO2 is shipped to Canada where it is pumped into the ground for secondary oil recvery. Thus it is sequested and improves Candian Oil production.

As the Beulah plant expanded it found another customer for the CO2. Pepsi and Coke buys the CO2 for its bottling plants. My nephew says that in order to maintain its "GREEM" title the Coke and Pepsi labels have a Green Warning. It says that the CO2 in the beverage must remain sequesters therefore

NO BURPING OR FARTING ALLOWED!