Squeezing More Synthetic Fuel from Abundant Supplies of Coal


 
Same Italian researchers, but different, later, report.
 
An excerpt:
 
"Based on laboratory simulations and comparisons with conventional coal gasification, their system was 70 percent more energy efficient, yielded 40 percent more fuel and released 32 per cent less carbon dioxide. "The new process configuration can represent a valuable alternative route to obtain syngas both for electric power generation and for synthetic fuel production," the report states. -American Chemical Society"
 
We find the emboldened phrase significant.
 
Did any of our correspondents know, before Melissa and I began these transmissions, that there were "conventional" methods of "coal gasification"?
 
That might come as news to your readership, mightn't it?