New Infrastructure Threat: Coal-to-Liquid
The Shenhua Group will begin producing diesel fuel from coal later this year at the facility, located in Inner Mongolia, about 375 miles west of Beijing. Shenhua is years ahead of U.S. Coal-to-liquid proponents, yet it still took the company 10 years to move from planning to production. “China is not talking about coal-to-liquid — it’s doing,” said Qingyun Sun, associate director of the U.S.-China Energy Center at West Virginia University.
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