eieio - I had assumed that the NYT was taking into account the energy inputs into production of those fuels or indeed would be an unfair comparison.
Still looks like oil still has the edge over CTL though. So describing it as clean is clearly a con. Why not use UCG to generate electricity which could power plug-in hybrids, produce hydrogen fuel cells or even produce LNG (not sure of this is possible with syngas). Just don't see the environmental claims for CTL at all. Nor the economic ones.
So why bother?
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