[Newsbot]

Title: Scientists find way to make cheap gas from coal
Category: Tech
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2010-02-23 12:50:56
Canadian

[saturn_656]

The OPEC countries must be crapping their shorts.

[stemmer]

This is great news....

[Brenda]

Great for eastern Europe too. They still heat their houses with brown coal (and the smoke that comes out of the chimneys is just too gross), so maybe they can go "green" and cheap

[raydan]

Now I wish I'd kept all those lumps of coal that Santa left me.

[commanderkai]

Wow, that's pretty awesome...

[Choban]

Great, stick it to big oil and it's producers.

[Zipperfish]

This isn't exactly new technology. Turning coal into liquid fuel has been around since teh Fisher-Tropsch process, that kept the Nazi war machine going. I gather this guy has eliminated a couple of intermediary steps and lowers the total energy cost.

[Robair]

There were internal combustion engines running on wood in the war as well. Google wood gasifiers.

I predict a rise in the cost of electricity in Saskatchewan...

[ShepherdsDog]

Give me a couple of hours and I can turn anything edible into gas...onions and cabbage even sooner.

[herbie]

A Y splitter from the carb's air intake, run one hose under the driver's seat.
Mexican overdrive.
Cabbage roll turbo
Bubble & Squeak booster

[DrCaleb]

herbie herbie:

A Y splitter from the carb's air intake, run one hose under the driver's seat.
Mexican overdrive.
Cabbage roll turbo
Bubble & Squeak booster

5 bean chili Supercharger. I've been making cheap gas like that for years. Cheap jokes, only just now.

[commanderkai]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

This isn't exactly new technology. Turning coal into liquid fuel has been around since teh Fisher-Tropsch process, that kept the Nazi war machine going. I gather this guy has eliminated a couple of intermediary steps and lowers the total energy cost.

True, though the process certainly wasn't efficient. If this is able to make oil at $28 dollars a barrel (And if I remember correctly...a barrel is 300 gallons, but I might be wrong), this can be huge for energy independence. HOWEVER, this would suck for the Tar Sands

[DrCaleb]

commanderkai commanderkai:

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

This isn't exactly new technology. Turning coal into liquid fuel has been around since teh Fisher-Tropsch process, that kept the Nazi war machine going. I gather this guy has eliminated a couple of intermediary steps and lowers the total energy cost.

True, though the process certainly wasn't efficient. If this is able to make oil at $28 dollars a barrel (And if I remember correctly...a barrel is 300 gallons, but I might be wrong), this can be huge for energy independence. HOWEVER, this would suck for the Tar Sands

An oil barrell is 42 US gallons, 191 litres. Beer barrel, 36 US gallons.

It won't phase the oilsands at all.

[Thanos]

Lots of coal in Canada anyway. Ka-CHING!