Fischer–Tropsch fuels from coal and biomass: Strategic advantages of once-through (“polygeneration”) configurations
Robert H. William, Eric D. Larson, Guangjian Liu and Thomas G. Kreutz
Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Guyot Hall, Washington Road, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA
The brief Abstract, as excerpted below, says it all:
"Systems that produce synthetic liquid fuels and electricity from coal and biomass with carbon capture and storage offer an attractive cost-effective approach for decarbonising (sic) liquid fuels and electricity simultaneously."
Our preference is for one of the approaches that actually captures and recycles the carbon, as we've documented to be possible and practical. But, according this report from Princeton, even if we were to waste the money it would take to waste the potentially-valuable CO2 resource - by pumping it underground, i.e., the "storage" as above - coal/biomass combined fuel/power production is "an attractive cost-effective approach".