US PROFESSOR SAYS NAZI TECHNOLOGY WILL MAKE COAL LIVE FOREVER
November 1st, 2006
BY MONICA DOBIE
TECHNOLOGY developed by Nazi Germany and Apartheid era South Africa to turn coal into oil could guarantee solid fuels markets well into the future, an American geological expert has claimed.
University of Washington Professor Emeritus Eric Cheney said making oil from coal by reacting it with water known as Fischer-Tropsch process could become commercially successful given sustained high oil prices.
The method was created in the 1920's in Germany and was used in desperation by the Nazis in WWII and in South Africa when under international ...
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