--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't think coal will ever replace oil. Everybody knows the effect coal > had in creating acid rain and deforestation around the world. However it > will > still be used at current levels and maybe a little higher or at least until > there is a technology to burn significantly cleaner. > The NY times article that Bob linked to,
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/05/business/05coalfuel.html I mainly about turning coal into liquid and gaseous fuels. Not burning it directly. I think most of the acid rain is caused by sulferous emmissions. The sulfer can be recovered in the processes being used to turn coal into automotive and heating fuel and sold for other uses. Appearantly, from the article they can currently produce diesel fuel from coal at 1/4 the cost of fuel from petroleum. That's why business is starting to do it. They are even using old fertilizer plants to do it. Natural gas is running out so the gas-to- fertilizer plants are becoming non-cost effective. They are being turned into coal liquification plants without excessive modification. Coal gasification is also an old technology. They used to have a plant right here in Fairfield. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
