Chemicals from Coal

 
 
We have belabored, in our dispatches, Eastman's Tennessee Coal-To-Chemicals enterprise, presenting it as a genuine, very real, domestic US, example of what we can actually do with coal; as a fulfilled avatar of coal's potentials.
 
Here, in "Potential for Chemicals from Coal", by an Eastman scientist, we have some more info on what we can accomplish, with coal, for ourselves, for WV, and for the US.
 
As follows: 
 
"Victor H. Agredaa

aProcess Systems Engineering, Tennessee Eastman Co., Eastman Chemicals Division, Eastman Kodak Co., PO Box 511, Kingsport, TN 37662, USA

 

Abstract

The following is a discussion of the potential for chemicals from coal, based on existing technology (proven or under development), and a likely scenario for the transition from oil and natural gas to coal as the primary feedstock. Oil shale and tar sands are also alternative feedstocks, but will not be discussed in this article. On a world scale, coal is the most important alternative fuel and chemical feedstock in terms of reserves, availability, commercial acceptance, and technology development. Furthermore, similar arguments and reasoning apply to the future emergence of other fossil fuels as significant alternative fuel and chemical feedstocks."

By "other fossil fuels", we presume him to mean oil shale and, perhaps, the sometimes highly-carbonaceous shale, siltstone, and high-ash coal often found in mine waste accumulations. 

Tennessee, Mike. Why not WV?