Actually, to anyone who knows industrial history this is purest clickbait. North Korea's poylvinyl alcohol fiber is indeed made from coal, but worldwide the che

Actually, to anyone who knows industrial history this is purest clickbait. North Korea's poylvinyl alcohol fiber is indeed made from coal, but worldwide the chemical industry used coal until after World War 2. The feedstocks would be acetylene (from carbide) and coal tar distillates. The enormous energy requirements of a carbide oven is why the American chemical industry settled near Buffalo, NY, that's where the Niagara Falls powerplant was.