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Kentucky CoalTL Research Funding

 
The amount of the grant detailed herein doesn't sound like much - especially given the absolutely huge implications the subject has for the United States economy. But, it is something, at least, and signifies that serious research and development is ongoing within the Consortium for Fossil Fuel Science to find ways in which King Coal can help us shove Big Oil off the sidewalk, and tell the Cartel to take a hike.
 
The excerpt: 

"$2 million goes to UK coal research

A research center at the University of Kentucky will get $2 million to study technology to turn coal into liquid transportation fuel, two Kentucky congressmen have announced.

The grant will go to UK's Center for Applied Energy Research, according to a news release from Republican U.S. Reps. Harold "Hal" Rogers of Somerset and Geoff Davis of Fort Mitchell.

The two Republicans got the money for the center into the federal budget signed by President Obama this week, according to the release.

The money will allow the center to expand on existing research by building a small-scale refinery, Rogers and Davis said."

Well, for 2 million bucks, it would be a very "small-scale refinery".

And, we remind you of our earlier reports on Kentucky's "H-Coal" coal liquefaction research, undertaken with others, back in the 1980's.

Sadly, those "others" consisted not just of Hydrocarbon Research, Inc, the lead H-Coal contractor, but of oil companies, as well, including Mobil, who were responsible for some for some of the public reportage to the DOE, and who now, as part of Exxon-Mobil, hold commercial rights to the "MTG", methanol-to-gasoline, Process, where the methanol is proposed to be made primarily from coal.