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Old 03-03-2007, 02:15 PM
CORed CORed is offline
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Where do you get the hydrogen from?

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Coal gasification and liquefaction starts with te "water gas" reaction. When you react water (or steam) with burning coal. H20 + C -> H2 + CO. You can then react the hydrogen with more coal to get methane (gas) or heavier hydrocarbons (oil).
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