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Re: Turn coal into oil
Not that I am a spokesman for the petrolium industry, but one must realize that many things are made from that single barrel of oil. Once can crack the molecules to give various grades/types of petro-fuels as well as the many other uses of the byproducts such as plastics, etc.
I am not sure of the specific enegry costs of and returns on each of these, but it must at least make up a bit more thnt just examining only diesel fuel produced from a barrel of crude oil.
Humans have ALWAYS had VERY ineffecient fuels. Even our harnessing of nuclear power has a pretty low yield of the actual energy stored in atoms.
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