Strobel is still struggling with the challenge of condensing these fumes into liquid fuel.
We have enough coal, when converted to liquid fuel, to replace oil for 200 years.
Before passing its colossal energy bill last week, the Senate rejected coal-to-liquid fuel subsidies.
He said that the next stage of the firm's work would be to produce a liquid fuel.
Oil shale and tar sands are other sources of liquid fuel that are harder on the environment than petroleum.
Liquid fuel can be continuously cleaned of the contaminants that spoil solid fuel.
The 2010 Annual Energy Outlook projects that over 40 percent of U.S. liquid fuel consumption will be supplied by imports through 2035.
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Unlike other technologies, Sequesco says it can convert carbon into liquid fuel without sunlight, which would avoid the Achilles heel of similar technologies.
The term hybrid is used because this type of rocket motor uses neither all-liquid fuel nor all-solid fuel, but a combination of both.
The potential for change is clearly massive but weaning British motorists off liquid fuel will be an uphill task, as the authors acknowledge.
And for the first time in more than a decade, oil we imported accounted for less than half of the liquid fuel we consumed.
But based on what the United States has seen, the belief is that the missiles have received their liquid fuel and are ready for launch.
Likewise motorists and corporations will respond to rising prices by buying smaller cars and exploring alternatives, like powering cars with ammonia or turning coal into liquid fuel.
Latvia has no nuclear plants and imports 100 percent of its gasoline, diesel, natural gas, coal, and other liquid fuel sources for its population of 2.7 million.
But in 1913 one of its scientists, Friedrich Bergius, found a way to turn coal into a high-grade liquid fuel by heating it in the presence of hydrogen and a catalyst.
The process is also capable of transforming virtually all plant matter into liquid fuel, whereas typical ethanol refining uses only the fatty acids that make up around 10 percent of the mass of dried plants.
The Sunshine to Petrol project is testing a prototype device called the Counter Rotating Ring Receiver Reactor Recuperator (called CR5 for short) which turns CO2 into carbon monoxide which could then form part of a liquid fuel.
Using technology invented in Nazi Germany and perfected by South Africa's Sasol when those countries were under oil embargoes, companies are now also investing furiously to convert not only natural gas but also coal into a liquid fuel.
India has been working on thorium for some years, but the technology is as different from today's nuclear power as gas is from coal, and very few nuclear engineers even hear about liquid fuel during their training, let alone get to work on it.
Liquid-fuel reactors, such as MSRs, also offer inherent safety advantages: because the fuel is liquid, it expands when heated, thus slowing the rate of nuclear reactions and making the reactor self-governing.
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Rival ideas withered, among them the thorium liquid-fuel reactor, powered by molten fluoride salt containing thorium.
This winter they plan to do more, probably also including liquid-fuel stoves, which few Afghan families own.
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Liquid-fuel reactor technology was developed at Oak Ridge National Labs in the 1960s.
XCOR's Lynx, roughly the size of a small airplane, will take off and land on a runway and propel itself with liquid-fuel engines.
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In the 1970s and 1980s the federal government poured billions of dollars into the Synthetic Fuels Corporation to develop liquid and gas fuel from coal, and into the fast-breeder nuclear reactor.
Households with oil-fired central heating, and those using solid fuel or liquid petroleum gas to heat their homes, are much more likely to be in fuel poverty than "on-grid" households.
Water from asteroids could be broken down in space to liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen for rocket fuel.
Mining more coal for shipment to coal-to-liquid processing plants and fuel customers would reverse the slide, potentially welcome news for shareholders of Burlington Northern, Norfolk Southern and other rail companies.
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