[Old School]

Actually that wasn't CTL that was was used in the early 1900's, It was coal GASIFICATION, and the product was piped to customers for heating, and cooking, but that was soon replaced by the safer option of natural gas.

What really hinders this CTL process is just how are we supposed to "capture" the CO2 released from producing gas from coal. The amount of CO2 produced in CTL is double what it is from conventional oil. The carbon capture and sequestration is a joke, if we implement this it would be the largest hazardous waste disposal project ever undertaken by humans.

Capturing carbon dioxide will consume 10% to 40% of the energy produced by a power plant. This means that, on average, CCS would require construction of a fifth power plant for every 4 new power plants that use CCS. This means that CCS requires, on average, 25% more coal mining, transportation, and waste disposal than non-CCS power plants. CCS would also increase the water requirements of power plants by 90%

CCS will also double the cost of a power plant and will increase the cost of electricity somewhere between 21% and 91%, according to U.S. government figures. So we will be given off more pollution, and raising electricity cost, all while big coal companies rake in more profit, and destroy more of eastern ky.

Also no one can guarantee that CCS will allow the carbon to stay underground forever. Even very small leakage rates would offset every things accomplished by burying it. The majority of the scientific community is saying the CO2 emissions must peak by 2015, and start to decline after that, but most people from the coal industry are saying that CCS will be at the level we need between 2030 and 2050. None of this matters to them, or people like you, it's all ok as long as you make a profit.

http://www.celsias.com/article/the-carbo...-rolls-on/

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/mar2006/...-15-06.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal

Sorry coach, but I guess we disagree again, below is part of the article I read.

Since the invention of the original process by the German researchers Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch, working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in the 1920s, many refinements and adjustments have been made, and the term "Fischer-Tropsch" now applies to a wide variety of similar processes (Fischer-Tropsch synthesis or Fischer-Tropsch chemistry). Fischer and Tropsch filed a number of patents, e.g. US patent no. 1,746,464, applied 1926, published 1930 [2].


The process was invented in petroleum-poor but coal-rich Germany in the 1920s, to produce liquid fuels. It was used by Germany and Japan during World War II to produce ersatz fuels. Germany's annual synthetic fuel production reached more than 124,000 barrels per day (19,700 m³/d) from 25 plants ~ 6.5 million tons in 1944.[3]