The excerpt:
"GE Energy Licenses its Gasification Technology for Coal-to-Methanol Plant in China
"GE's gasification technology has been licensed by 38 facilities in China, allowing chemicals manufacturers to use successfully a variety of relatively inexpensive local coals to create a wide variety of industrial chemicals and fuels," said Jason Crew, director, gasification products, Asia, for GE Energy. "This experience gives our licensees an edge in China's increasingly competitive chemical production industry.""
We quite some time ago reported China's published intent to build 88 coal-to-liquid conversion factories as part of their five-year plan; factories which will supply not just methanol, which can be converted into gasoline at moderate expense or used as a raw material for plastics and other organic chemical manufacturing, but diesel and versatile di-methyl ether fuels, as well.
General Electric will, it seems, be providing the technical components for at least 38 of those coal-to-liquid factories.