Estimated U.S. oil shale reserves total an astonishing 1.5 trillion barrels of oil - or more than five times the stated reserves of Saudi Arabia. Canada deja il exploateaza in Alberta.......
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/rpt/OilShale.html
Total reserve de carbune in lume - 909,064 million tones out of which US - 246,643 miil tones.
Coals can also be converted into liquid fuels like gasoline or diesel by several different processes. The Fischer-Tropsch process of indirect synthesis of liquid hydrocarbons was used in Nazi Germany for many years and is today used by Sasol in South Africa. Coal would be gasified to make syngas (a balanced purified mixture of CO and H2 gas) and the syngas condensed using Fischer-Tropsch catalysts to make light hydrocarbons which are further processed into gasoline and diesel. Syngas can also be converted to methanol, which can be used as a fuel, fuel additive, or further processed into gasoline via the Mobil M-gas process………………….
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal#Liquefaction_-_Coal-To-Liquids_.28CTL.29
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