The US energy strategy that would change the outlook worldwide is that for replacing crude oil with other liquids fuels to run automotive engines. Other strategies wander off into exotics requiring subsidies to produce heat or electricity not diesel, heating oil or gasoline. There is no...

The strategic advantages for substituting synthetic fuels for crude oil based gasoline and heating oil have long been evident but the questions as to when and to what extent have not been addressed in total. Based on corporate and government research reports, we assess and summarize the case for...

"Petroleum from Coal shows why and how Friedrich Bergius and Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch in 1913-26 invented and developed synthetic fuel processes; explains why and how Matthias Pier at BASF- IG Farben and Otto Roelen at Ruhrchemie successfully industrialized the syntheses during the...