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That last one was waaaay too long with too many referrals to old posts. I
guess you engineering guys are related to the folks who wrote the tax code.
:-)
So, what we have here is a suggestion that syngas be made from coal and run
through a fuel cell to produce electricity to be stored by flywheels.
OK, the coal syngas idea was real big in Kentucky in the early 70's but
folded without a whimper for some reason with not even one plant being built
here. I got the idea that the amount of electrical energy needed to obtain
the gas made it prohibitive. Can syngas from coal be economically obtained
now? If it is a reforming via heat can we use coal or other biomass for the
heat instead of electrical energy?
The fuel cells are only just now coming out into the real world. They are
incomplete, expensive and not widely available.
The flywheel idea is just a table top model or maybe only on paper. I read
the article about it that was cited and it seems that it may one day be a
great invention but today it is theory.
Back to the coal syngas. Can it be made economically today? Can it be done
on less than a gargantuan scale?
Neal
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