Keith: I listened to an interview on Tom Valentine's radio show discuss the
plant which was brought to Missouri. It was years ago, and I cannot give the
nane of the man. It was at least an hour of discussion about the history,
quality of fuel, cost, and other aspects.
Ed B
----- Original Message -----
From: Keith Addison
To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: [biofuel] PENTAGON THREATENS TO KILL INDEPENDANT REPORTERS
INIRAQ-innocent lives will be lost!
>At the time of the Second World War, German technology was producing
>gasoline from coal. An entire factory was brought from Germany, and
>assembled in Missouri. It made gasoline at a cost of 5 cents a
>gallon. It was dismantled and the technology was hidden away.
>
>Ed B
Not so. This is what happened - posted here previously by a list member:
> "One of our oldest scientists, now 84 yrs. old, was responsible for
>going into Germany post WWII and uncovering the remains of Hitler's
>synthetic fuels machine which had been bombed out. I'm speaking of
>Fischer-Tropsch oily-based paraffins which are hydrocracked down
>into shorter chains for synthetic gasoline, jet fuel and diesel. He
>brought back some of the original German scientists who'd perfected
>this technology which utilized coarse, low-grade brown German coal
>as feedstock. Three times he tried to start-up an American version
>of synthetic hydrocarbon fuels in the GTL arena and was blocked. As
>the highest ranking American energy technologist post WWII, he
>couldn't figure this out. It was over 20 years later that he
>realized that the late John Rockefeller of Standard Oil [Exxon] had
>been the politic behind the scenes, making sure that his new,
>alternative fuel ideas did not materialize. This scientist then took
>his blueprints for the first major GTL project and gave them to
>Sasol who built his first coal gasification device back in 1953 and
>it is still operating today. Sasol from South Africa is the oldest
>synthetic fuels producer globally."
Best wishes
Keith
> >Yes, hydrogen from coal is the only fossil alternative. It will take you
> >20 to 30 years to get to this. Bush loves this, since he probably been
> >briefed about the seriousness of today's situation. He does not explain
> >it to the American people, like both Carter and Nixon tried to do. Things
> >have not got better since then, on the contrary.
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