Diesel, the fuel of the future!!
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Interesting times ahead.
Would be a shame to see all these shiney new jets grounded because they have no AVTUR.
There no doubt already is a solution but you can bet your bottom dollar it wont be presented until **** really has hit the fan. To much commercial interest in oil with most governments bought by the oil giants.
Would be a shame to see all these shiney new jets grounded because they have no AVTUR.
There no doubt already is a solution but you can bet your bottom dollar it wont be presented until **** really has hit the fan. To much commercial interest in oil with most governments bought by the oil giants.
Originally Posted by LewC
Avweb,this week,reports that the US Air Force is investigating the manufacture of "synthetic" fuel using coal or natural gas.Fortunately they won't have to look far for answers,a South African company,SASOL, is already on the case and has recently sold two coal to liquid conversion plants to the Chinese Government.
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Quite so,18 Wheeler.During their Apartheid Period the South Africans,being subject to various sanctions and embargoes,adopted the technology which had been developed Germany in the '30s.It had been regarded as an uneconomical way of producing something that could be pumped out of the ground a lot more cheaply,however when crude oil hit US$60 a barrel with predictions that that price would not only be exceeded but maintained,coal to oil conversion became more than competitive.SASOL claim their plants can convert the coal for about US$40 a barrel.Of course one problem is that the Greens are dead against it but that's just another good reason for using it.
