"Abstract
This work deals with thermochemical conversion of peat into solvent-soluble oiland volatile gaseous products by using pyrolysis and catalytical hydrocracking methods..."
Now, we've told you how sub-bituminous (i.e., sub-WV) brown coal lignite is being converted to liquid fuels and chemicals in various places around the world.
Here, from researchers in Denmark, Greenland and Estonia, we have research detailing how you can dig brown muck out of a peat bog - stuff that ain't even close yet to being just lignite - and convert it into liquids for fuel and etc.
And, as luck would have it, at this time of year, and as we're still trying to verify/document, the Irish are at work on the same thing.
Now, seriously, if you can "do it" with sopping-wet European peat, you can certainly do it, better and more productively, with hard, dry WV bituminous - not to mention with all the cellulose that can be grown on our hills and in our flue gas-cleaning algal bioreactors.