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Originally Posted by HarryD
I hate to disillusion you (FWIW I was one of the workers on President Carter's MEOW (Moral Equivalent of War)). I must have looked at dozens of Caol to synthetic fuel plants. In 1977 when oil was expected to go to $50/bbl, none of the plants would make money. The cost of the technology was very high and to large degree, unproven.
One of the things that struck me in every design I looked at was that to raise the steam necessary to run the process, they always had a coal fired boiler with FGD and ESP to reduce emissions. When I asked the designers why they did not use the fuel produced by the plant to make process steam, they always responded that the cost of steam from the fuel product was higher than that made by a traditional coal fired boiler. In other words the fuel produced was too expensive.
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You are aware that 1977 was 31 years ago right?