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clean coal?

Discussion in 'Environmental Discussion' started by barbaram, Jun 1, 2007.

  1. barbaram

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    tripp Which it's a 'ybrid, ain't it?

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(barbaram @ Jun 1 2007, 02:37 AM) [snapback]453110[/snapback]</div>
    We'd chew through our coal pretty damn fast going down that road. The price of coal would jump because of the huge increase in demand. Furthermore, you need a lot of hydrogen for CTL. Currently, that hydrogen comes from natural gas. A large CTL effort would put a lot of upward pressure on coal and NG. There would also need to be more power plants required for the energy investment of CTL. The EROI is a lot worse than pumping oil out of the ground, espcially the light, sweet crude that refineries like to process.
     
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    Oxymoron: "clean" coal and "clean" diesel.
     
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