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The could use excess wind and solar electricity to power coal gasification plants to generate natural gas that they can then use in the winter, without having t
by fiftyfifty 4y ago
The could use excess wind and solar electricity to power coal gasification plants to generate natural gas that they can then use in the winter, without having to retrofit any boilers. They can even make heating oil from coal:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_gasification https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_gasification
- ch4s3 4y agoThey sure could, and may end up doing that but I'd bet it's going to be politically unpalatable. Both retrofitting and coal gasification could probably be done in parallel.