synfuels

The main problem with Carter's program was that the process by which so-called synfuels are produced is extremely energy-intensive.

OnlineAthens: Top Headlines 2010

Emphasis on extreme scenarios may have been appropriate at one time, when the public and decision-makers were relatively unaware of the global warming issue, and energy sources such as "synfuels," shale oil and tar sands were receiving strong consideration.

The Oregon Catalyst 2008

- business options such as synfuels and/or alternatives;

ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

But the grounds for these expenditures are no different from the ones that gave us the synfuels, fusion, ethanol, and PNGV programs.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » I Need Some Help on Alternative Energy Subsidies 2010

Mining the moons of Mars and the asteroids for platinum could help us produce cheaper carbon neutral synfuels on Earth and use fuels like methanol much more efficiently in fuel cell vehicles and power plants.

Is Space Exploration Worth Funding? - NASA Watch 2009

The synfuels tax credit that lets utilities buy coal, spray it with a little diesel oil and call it "synfuel"?

Heads you win, and they do, too (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

As with yesterday's panacea, synfuels, into which Jimmy Carter poured billions.

Obama and the vision thing 2010

  Similarly, the Weyburn project on this continent has been taking CO2 produced at a synfuels plant in North Dakota and piping it to oil fields in Saskatchewan.

A Clean Coal Confrontation 2009

Jimmy Carter's administration did attempt to move the nation toward a more rational energy policy, but the environmental impacts of those policies are questionable -- for example the initiative to produce synfuels from sources like coal and oil shale.

Bill Chameides: Obama: The Environmental President? 2009

While I know it's been much-maligned as being a less-than-ideal solution, my understanding is that coal-to-liquid is part of a mix of cleaner-burning synfuels likely to be pursued in the shorter-term as longer-term solutions are nurtured.

Obama Promoting Coal -- And Concern For Rural Voters -- In New Kentucky Ad 2009