Word: coal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alliance, Neb., has jumped from 7,000 to 12,000 since 1976 because of increased traffic on the Burlington Northern. All across the country, railroads would need to upgrade their aging roadbeds, at a cost of as much as $10 billion, to handle the huge new volumes of coal and other freight. The entire construction effort, says Economist Alan Greenspan, would be rather like building a new Saudi Arabia in the middle...
...vast new industry built on coal, shale and garbage
...entirely new industry to produce synthetic fuels would be the most ambitious technical venture that the U.S. has ever undertaken. From outright subsidies to price guarantees, the Government would offer many incentives for private firms to produce oil-like liquids and natural gas from the nation's plentiful coal, shale rock and biomass.* Congressmen are infatuated with the idea of synthetic-fuel production. Cracks Representative Clarence Brown of Ohio: "Every committee in Congress has a synfuel bill, except the Ethics Committee...
...best bet is thought to be production of oil and gas from coal. Carter has set a goal of the equivalent of 1 million to 1.5 million bbl. a day by 1990. The technology is well known. South Africa gets 10% of its oil from coal and expects the total to rise...
...most common process, coal is heated under great pressure to 900° F. As the coal decomposes, it releases oil and gas. Another extraction method, which adds hydrogen to coal that is heated under pressure, will be tested at a small, experimental plant operated by several oil companies in Catlettsburg, Ky. It should be able to convert 600 tons of coal into 1,800 bbl. of oil a day. At a DOE-funded plant in Fort Lewis, Wash., Gulf Oil since 1974 has been testing yet another process called "solvent refined coal," which uses chemicals to remove impurities from...