When opponents of coal and petcoke gasification write a list of the reasons that a coal/petcoke gasification project should be stopped, there are two false statements that are commonly cited. The first is that its experimental and the second is that its more expensive.

The value of the U.S. movie industry is $10 billion which roughly equates to only two coal-to-liquid plants. During the Oscar’s I learned that the movie industry is a $10 billion industry. $10 billion? Yes, $10 billion. The revenue potential for all the wealthy producers, the creative directors, the imaginative writers, the costume persons, the [...]

The Big Stone II coal fired power plant project is providing fresh fodder for environmentalists to use to continue to confuse the general public regarding the use of coal. There are articles all over the internet with headlines that say the Obama administration is signaling that it is opposed to the use of coal. On [...]

President-elect Obama has selected Dr. Steven Chu to be Energy Secretary. Dr. Chu has been the Director of the Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory. Prior to his tenure at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Dr. Chu was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with lasers and developing a technique to trap atoms with [...]

The Federal bailout is necessary, but the Economic Recovery Plan should be used for projects that will set the U.S. on a path for long term prosperity. Construction of Coal-to-Liquids plants will produce jobs and energy independence for the U.S. economic recovery. Most Americans are convinced that the bailout is needed for the mortgage industry [...]

T. Boone Pickens is right about the strategic importance to stop spending $700 billion each year on imported foreign crude oil. This is the equivalent of a Federal bailout equal to the 2008 bailout every year. The Obama administration should include coal derived liquid fuel as a key component of the U.S. Energy Policy. Coal-to-Liquids [...]

Barack Obama and Joe Biden support clean coal technology. The quote below is from the Obama-Biden website: Develop and Deploy Clean Coal Technology. “Obama’s Department of Energy will enter into public private partnerships to develop five “first-of-a-kind” commercial scale coal-fired plants with clean carbon capture and sequestration technology. “ The new administration is laying the [...]

The United States has a tremendous potential to offset oil imports with coal-to-liquid (CTL) plants.  China is deploying a government strategy to be energy independent by relying on its coal reserves for power, gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and chemicals feedstocks.  The U.S. can too.  The U.S. has 250 billion tons of proven coal reserves and [...]

Clean coal is a term used to describe a process called ‘coal gasification’ and it’s totally different from the coal burning plants of your parents and grandparents generation. The clean coal advertisements and the excitement from the private industry, government agencies and the U.S. Air Force is for coal gasification. Currently, there are only seven [...]

China is passing the United States at warp speed.