Bad News: Scientists Make Cheap Gas From Coal

Wired by Alexis Madrigal | Mar. 28, 2009 (News Report)

Electric cars have been getting a lot of buzz lately, but a more immediately viable transportation fuel of the future could be liquid derived from coal. Scientists have devised a new way to transform coal into gas for your car using far less energy than the current process. The advance makes scaling up the environmentally unfriendly fuel more economical than greener alternatives. Full Story »

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 by Paul Keene - Mar. 28, 2009

This story is very lacking in facts. I'm surprised the author actually put in the piece about that CTL fuel produces twice the Co2 as standard gasoline. The author fails to mention what specific energy is in the CTL (hint, it's less than gasoline) or that at 350 megawatts to produce 80,000 gallons of fuel is a net loss in energy. Overall, the story is poorly researched and reported.

I seriously doubt this story was written by Alexis Madrigal. It appears to be another coal industry sponsered article thats long on glory an short on facts (like clean coal).

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