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U.S. Air Force cancels plans for coal to liquid fuel project
For a military forces, a steady reliable supply of fuel is critical to success. Given that, the U.S. Air Force has been investigating the idea of putting a coal-to-liquid facility at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana. Coal is readily available in the continental U.S. and being able to economically produce synthetic liquid fuel would be highly beneficial to the military. The proposals that the Air Force looked at involved having a privately-funded and -operated fuel plant on the site. However, the investigators found that the proposals would ... Read more →
Detroit 2008: Toyota's Takimoto talks about all of Toyota's future eco plans Sebastian Blanco
During the hectic press days of the Detroit Auto Show, AutoblogGreen and a small number of other news outlets were invited to a corner of the Riverfront Ballroom at Cobo Hall. The reason for the ...
AutoblogGreen Q&A: Coskata CEO Bill Roe on cellulosic ethanol partnership with GM Sebastian Blanco
In the latest AutoblogGreen podcast, we featured an interview with Coskata president and CEO Bill Roe. This is a transcription of that interview. For a way-too detailed look at the GM-Coskata ...
Many presidential candidates support coal-to-liquid fuel Sebastian Blanco
American news outlets are certainly full of updates from the voting in New Hampshire today, where the second first presidential primary in the 2008 U.S. election is taking place (UPDATE courtesy of J ...
Huckabee tells us God is green Sebastian Blanco
Apparently, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee hasn't met an energy source he doesn't like. According to a new article in Salon, Huckabee "praises just about every energy source you can ...
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New method to obtain cheap natural gas from coal 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
GreatPoint, a company made by three enterpreneurs from Boston (Andrew Perlman, Avi Goldberg and Aaron Mandell) has announced that they have created a cheap method to obtain natural gas from coal. Obtaining gas from coal (called syngas) is not the latest technology around: At the end of the 19th ...
Just how much of a difference could efficiency gains make on oil imports? A lot 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Sometimes you have to step away from the daily updates and take a peek at the larger "domestic and global fuels supply situation.' If you're the DOE Task Force on Strategic Unconventional Fuel that just released a three-volume report on exactly that matter, you'll discover that the "outlook is ...
More coal to liquid fuels research from Penn State 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Penn State University has really been on a green roll these last few days, getting three stories featured on our site. One had to do with a novel way to extract hydrogen from water using nanotechnology and sunlight and the second had to do with using coal and papermaking waste to make a liquid ...
Making biofuels from the papermaking industry's black liquor waste 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Sometimes, people just need to make the best with what they have got to work with. This is what paper mills are trying to do by burning the "black liquor" waste which is a leftover remnant of chemicals and the lignin. As part of the Kraft process (.pdf link), the leftovers are burned to create ...
The DOE, Conoco-Phillips and LSU work to increase ethanol's efficiency, want to make it from coal 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
The headlines for this story indicate that a team from LSU, Oak Ridge National Lab, Clemson, Conoco-Phillips and the Department of Energy are trying to make ethanol a more efficient fuel. I don't know that this is the case, as it seems that what they are trying to do is manufacture ethanol from the ...
Chrysler produces the ultimate green racer 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Arguments could be made about the green credentials of any alternative fuel vehicles such as the chemical content and energy required to produce batteries, the problem of producing and storing hydrogen and more. But here is a racer produced by a group of Chrysler employees that is completely green. ...
Biodiesel-supporting governor of Montana vetoed biodiesel tax credit bill, but all is not lost 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Why did Gov. Schweitzer (D), a long-time supporter of biodiesel, veto a bill designed to give biodiesel users a $500 tax credit? According to Biodiesel Magazine, "Schweitzer said the bill's estimated $3 million economic impact was simply too much to approve without final numbers in place." The veto ...
Shell cancels oil-shale mining permit request in Colorado 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Oil from shale is one of the many alternative sources of petroleum that has been researched for the past several decades but to date no one has actually brought it to mass production. As with the tar sands in Alberta, Canada, there are huge quantities of petroleum locked in other materials in North ...
RPS vs. CPS 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Many ABG readers may know that the Senate is debating energy issues this week and next. I have snuck into the Senate chambers several times (via C-SPAN) to check on their progress. As you know, electric vehicles keep appearing on ABG. Some have electricity generated on board only, but the trend ...
AutoblogGreen Q&A: Nick Zielinski and Gary Smyth of General Motors 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Following the Challenge-X presentation presentation at General Motors headquarters last week, a group of bloggers including myself, Matt Kelly of The Next Gear, Lyle Dennis of gm-volt.com, Todd Kaho of Green Car Journal, Scott Anderson of Hydrogen Forecast, Philip Proefrock of Ecogeek, and Matt ...
China may abandon liquified coal projects 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
China has been moving aggressively to wean itself from reliance on petroleum both because of terrible pollution problems in the big cities like Beijing an Shanghai and because it has few domestic petroleum reserves. Recently the Chinese government has put a lot of emphasis on coal to liquid ...
EPA says coal to liquid could cause 119% INCREASE in greenhouse gases 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Even if you disregard the environmental catastrophe that is mountaintop removal, the reasons not to increase the use of coal are numerous. The current popular idea for using coal is convert it to liquid fuel via the Fischer-Tropsch process for use in transportation. Like petroleum, coal is a fossil ...
DOE releases feasability study for Illinois Coal to Liquid plant 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
The Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory has completed a feasibility study for a proposed Coal to Liquid fuel production facility in Illinois. The proposal would include a plant that would convert 24,500 tons of coal daily into 50,000 barrels of fuel along with 124 MW of ...
Silverado Green Fuel is creating liquid coal fuel for cars at half the cost of oil 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Coal is a dirty word. Coal is also a four letter word. That is never going to change, or is it? If Silverado Green Fuels has its way, it just might. I don't have a great understanding of coal power to begin with, and reading this information didn't help too much. But, from what I can tell, the ...
Purdue working on 'carbon-free' production method for liquid fuels, but it requires hydrogen 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Chemical engineers from Purdue University are proposing an environmentally-friendly process for producing liquid fuels from biomass. It involves adding hydrogen during the gasification step, which suppresses the formation of carbon dioxide and converts all the carbon atoms to fuel. Normally when ...
Think coal gasification and coal-to-liquid is the same? Not even close 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Following a conversation with Washington Congressman Jay Inslee, Grist blogger David Roberts set out to distinguish between coal gasification and coal-to-liquid (CTL) production. Inslee believes CTL supporters are engaging in a plot to confuse legislators by positioning CTL under a "clean coal" ...
Biomass-to-liquids synthetic SunDiesel to launch in Europe this year 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
A new synthetic diesel fuel produced using a Fischer-Tropsch process based biomass-to-liquids (BTL) technology, and developed by Shell and Choren Industries, will be launched in Europe later this year. Utilising waste plant material like wood chips and straw instead of food crops like soybean and ...
Coal-to-liquid diesel fuel discussion at Treehugger 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
There is a movement in Washington that promotes coal-to-liquid fuel as an alternative fuel that would be grouped along with ethanol and biodiesel. If this were the case, U.S. incentives for ethanol production and coal-to-liquid would be split between the farmers and the coal miners. One might think ...
Montana's Democratic governor Brian Schweitzer voices support for biodiesel, wind power, liquid fuels from coal and ethanol 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
According to Brian Schweitzer, Democratic governor of Montana, President Bush is missing the boat on alternative fuels and energy sources here in the States. He also claims that we should not be fighting wars in the Middle East. Some of this political views do not lend themselves to an article here ...
New Congress sets energy strategy; will address issues with piecemeal approach 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Not wanting energy legislation to get bogged down or bloated up in a massive bill, this year's Congress will pursue energy issues individually. But leaders have an aggressive agenda with boosting ethanol use, extracting liquid fuels from coal and imposing higher CAFE standards. Already the Senate ...
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Indian government to make recomendations on Coal to Liquid 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
The Investment Commission of the Indian government has been evaluating coal to liquids (CTL) technology and came to the conclusion that it's feasible for India and should be pursued. Chairman Ratan Tata has met with the Prime Minister and urged the start of a CTL industry. Based on the expectation ...
EcoGeek Hates Liquid Coal 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Over at EcoGeek, Hank Green has a response to the recent MSNBC/Newsweek article about liquefied coal. Coal-to-liquid fuel is very controversial topic because the United States has huge quantities of coal in the ground, and it's relatively cheap to extract, at least compared to most other options. ...
