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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Energy => Topic started by: mystery-ak on December 03, 2019, 07:50:35 pm
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New energy secretary: Trump has directed agency to find 'different ways to utilize coal'
By Rebecca Beitsch - 12/03/19 02:29 PM EST
Acting Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette said this week he has received a directive from President Trump to boost the struggling coal industry.
"What the president has directed us to do is to look for different ways to utilize coal," Brouillette told the Washington Examiner in an interview Monday alongside now former Secretary Rick Perry.
The Senate confirmed Brouillette in a 70-15 vote Monday night. He has yet to be sworn in.
Brouillette appears set to follow Perry’s path in looking for ways to bolster an industry that has been losing ground to renewables and natural gas.
more
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/472843-new-energy-secretary-was-directed-by-trump-to-explore-options-for
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Coal gasification: The clean energy of the future?
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-26921145 (https://www.bbc.com/news/business-26921145)
https://www.netl.doe.gov/research/Coal/energy-systems/gasification/gasifipedia/intro-to-gasification (https://www.netl.doe.gov/research/Coal/energy-systems/gasification/gasifipedia/intro-to-gasification)
Hydrogen Production: Coal Gasification
https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-production-coal-gasification (https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-production-coal-gasification)
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The Nazis ran a lot of their war machine on coal liquefied into diesel.
When no one would sell crude to it due to apartheid, South Africa turned its abundant coal supplies into gasoline and other fuels.
Plenty of ways to use coal other than at the burner tip.