In 1926, in the same era as Bergius won the Nobel Prize for converting coal into liquid fuel and Sabatier won the Nobel Prize for recycling Carbon Dioxide into even more fuel, the New York Times recognized the importance of converting our vast reserves of domestic coal into the liquid fuels people of genuine vision recognized, even then, that we would need to have, and have from our own, secure United States reserves.
An excerpt follows, but we'll close here with a question that must be asked: Why is it that journalists in New York City recognized, eight decades, almost a century, ago, that our US coal represents a vault of treasure locked away, literally, in our basement, but Coal State journalists, now, don't even seem to be looking for the key?
Just wondering.
Joe the Miner
A brief excerpt:
COAL IS TO GIVE US GASOLINE AND A NEW FUEL; Chemists Promise a Rich Source of Future Energy to be Produced in Factories -- How Bituminous Mines are to be Utilized for the Benefit of Mankind
By VALENTINE KARLYN
November 28, 1926, Sunday
Section: SPECIAL FEATURES AUTOMOBILES SPECIAL FEATURES RADIO, Page XX3, 3273 words
A THOUSAND chemists and fuel engineers saw the future of coal unfolded during the international conference on bituminous coal held in Pittsburgh a few days ago. Scientists from England, Germany and France vied with American technologists in foreshadowing a day when the burning of raw coal in the factory or the home will be regarded as a highly extravagant practice.