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Coal-to-liquified

Posted on August 13, 2008

By Joseph RommSure coal-to-liquid is a dead end -- but dead ends never stopped the Pentagon before. Heck we now spend nearly $10 billion a year pursuing Star Wars weapons! But here comes the (potentially) amazing news from the Aug. 5 Defense Environment Alert ($ub. req'd): The departure of key Air Force officials is casting doubt on the future of the service's controversial synthetic fuels program and raising questions about industry's ability to use the military as a springboard for the development of a fully-fledged coal-to-liquids (CTL) program in the country. Already, a source cl...

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