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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (9440)9/19/2006 2:53:45 AM
From: Elroy Jetson  Read Replies (1) of 217669
 
Maurice, you may be one of the few people who actually own a coal powered automobile.

The rest of us need a liquid fuel with the right balance of carbon and hydrogen molecules. Our refiner could use coal to make gasoline, but they will need a lot of additional hydrogen from someplace.

The simple fact is you have to add enough hydrogens to the heavy carbon fuels to make the refined products which are actually burned.

If the world ran out of hydrogen rich fuels, like natural gas, refiners would have to split water to obtain the hydrogen they need to create the refined fuel with the right balance of carbon and hydrogen.

If everyone used electric cars, the power plants could burn dirty high-carbon fuels, but you're talking about a major change in infrastructure which I don't expect to see. Liquid fuels are just too convenient and power-rich to be easily replaced.
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