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Stick one of those factories on the tailpipe of a coal-fired powerplant to raise the incoming CO2-concentration for a double win: you get to use coal (and, henc
by hagbard_c 5y ago
Stick one of those factories on the tailpipe of a coal-fired powerplant to raise the incoming CO2-concentration for a double win: you get to use coal (and, hence, gain votes in coal states) while producing JP6 (or something similar) without adding any CO2 to the environment.
- pjc50 5y agoYou can just Fisher-Troph coal directly to aviation fuel. Nazi Germany was forced to do this and the Allies kept bombing the plants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuna_works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuna_works "A total of 6,552 (!!) bomber sorties over 20 US Eighth Air Force and 2 RAF attacks dropped 18,328 tons (!!) of bombs on Leuna ... Leuna bombing from May 12, 1944 to April 5, 1945 cost the Eighth Air Force 1,280 airmen (!!)"
- hagbard_c 5y agoSure you can, but that means you're using additional coal just for the purpose of making jet fuel, adding additional CO2 to the balance. By using CO2 from existing coal power plants you'll be CO2-neutral for the jet fuel. After all, if the point is to get fossil jet fuel it is even easier to use crude oil, of which there is plenty to go around. The Germans used the FT-process to get around the fact that they had coal of different types but only little oil, not because it is the easiest way to produce liquid hydrocarbons.