I was reading a long, well-researched and interesting post on America's sudden fascination ( at least some part of America) with coal as a feedstock to produce oil @ Alternative Energy Blog.
Rising oil prices have made many in the coal industry sit up and take note of the fact that diesel can be derived from coal, through coal liquefaction; though it is a costly process, it can be done (in fact South Africa has been doing it for the past many years).
The article at Alternative Energy Blog discusses this trend at length and provides arguments against the widespread use of coal for diesel.
One of the reasons for America's fascination is easy to understand. The USA sits on 25% of world's coal deposit. The USA is the Saudi Arabia of Coal!
While there possibly are coal deposits that can last 200 years or more, it does appear that it makes more sense to start slogging it out in engineering the right form of alternate / alternative energy instead of trying to plunder the earth of what little it still has, and that too pretty dirty stuff.
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