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Montana Governor Schweitzer wants to covert Coal Into Gas
Montana's Governor Schweitzer proposes plan to covert tons of high-quality coal into revenue , energy, and profits.Because the price of oil is at unheard- of levels, and the United States needs alternative energy supplies, Gov. Brian Schweitzer has targeted an old/new process to turn the coal into diesel and jet fuel. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., has put tax incentives for the process into the new energy and highway bills, and several U.S. energy technology firms have perfected the method.
The only problem is finding the investment of billions of dollars.
The process is done without any smokestacks or pollution. The process is called Fischer-Tropsch, named for the German scientists who developed the process in the 1920s for converting coal to diesel fuel, which later ran the Nazi war machine. In more recent decades, the process was used in South Africa to fuel its vehicles when the world would not trade with the apartheid nation. It still produces 150,000 barrels of fuel a day from coal. Energy technology firms in the United States and elsewhere have fine-tuned F-T to make both its process and products pollution-free.
For the Fischer-Tropsch process, the break even point comes when crude oil is more than $35 a barrel. Recent crude oil futures have settled at greater than $60 a barrel, and is not expected to ever drop below $40 a barrel.
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- coal gasification technology
- updated Fischer-Tropsch process
- Syntroleum
- F-T process
- energy package for Otter Creek
- montana coal gas
- Montana Coal to Gasoline - Interview with Governor Schweitzer
- http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/02/build/state/25-coal-fuel.inc
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