Coal Gasification Overview

Interesting to read one of the commenters.  She claims that these really aren't clean as they say.  What strikes me as strange is that this stuff (coal ) already existed.  How can using some of it be good, but the rest bad?  They have some explaining to do.  Of course, you may have to wait a long time to get an answer.

I think this could work pretty well.  That's why it won't be tried.

Using it for the grid may not make as much sense as using it for automotive fuel.  I figured out once that it costs over 60 cents per kwh equivalent to use an internal combustion engine to produce power from gasoline.  It is cheaper to produce fuel this way than from oil, but supposedly the money isn't there.

I think that excessive regulations prevent this, not a lack of profitability.