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 James Jackson - Mar. 28, 2009

In an article that is highly hyperlinked, there is no link to the Science Magazine article on which it is based, and no date and page citation (Science 27Mar09, pp 1680-81). This may have been acceptable in days of print journalism, but it is no longer.

Wired is the People magazine of technology.

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