Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A liquid or gaseous fuel derived from coal, shale, or tar sand, or obtained by fermentation of certain substances, such as grain.
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- noun Any of several
fuels synthesized fromcoal orshale etc, orfermented fromgrain etc
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The synfuels tax credit that lets utilities buy coal, spray it with a little diesel oil and call it "synfuel"?
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Despite its high-tech connotations, synthetic fuel -- often dubbed "synfuel" for short within the industry -- has been around for decades.
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Charles Krauthammer is more succinct in reminding us "that for three decades, since Jimmy Carter's synfuel fantasy, Washington has poured billions of taxpayer dollars down a rat hole in vain pursuit of economically competitive renewable energy."
Battery-powered cars and other projects government should avoid Jennifer Rubin 2011
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That's how we got Mr. Obama's electric-car subsidies, Jimmy Carter's "synfuel" disaster, and Bill Clinton's now-forgotten 80 mpg family-car project.
After Osama, Energy Sanity? Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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Putting ALL biomass through Biochar cookers to give us both synthetic gas or synfuel if we need it AND biochar to improve our soils is not just going to give us liquid fuels and better soils, but will be a CARBON NEGATIVE way to draw Co2 out of the air and lock it up in our soils for the next few thousand years.
New Biomass Plant for the UK Looks Like a Giant Green Volcano | Inhabitat 2009
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Some 4400 tonnes of coal is gasified using oxygen from the electrolysis to produce carbon monoxide which is fed to the Fischer-Tropsch plant with the hydrogen to produce 25,000 barrels of synfuel "oil".
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Using simply black coal, 14,600 tonnes produces 25,000 barrels of synfuel "oil" (with 25,000 tonnes of CO2).
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Canada is becoming increasingly important as the world's leading producer of oil sands, or bitumen -- a thick, gooey, viscous material that must be dug out of the ground and treated in various energy-intensive ways before it can be converted into synthetic petroleum fuel (synfuel).
Michael T. Klare: It's Official -- The Era of Cheap Oil Is Over 2009
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By synthesizing hydrogen or ammonia from electrolyzed water and air, and by extracting alcohol and bio-diesel from agricultured biomass, uranium-generated electric energy is in effect converted into green portable chemical synfuel.
A Good News/Bad News Day for the Nuclear Energy Industry - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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RE: #326 – Indeed, my analogy of the synfuel debacle appears to be correct.
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