The New Coal Car

The technology dates to the 1920s, but today's prices make liquid coal for cars a live option. The result is an investment boom.

By Emily Flynn Vencat

Newsweek

Issues 2007 - Powering cars with coal might seem like a recipe for ecological disaster. But if fuel experts are right, a liquefied form of the notoriously dirty mineral will be providing much of the world with its transport fuel within the next two decades. The coal miner's equivalent of turning straw into gold, liquid coal enables cars, trains and even jets designed to burn oil to run on coal instead. And, says its cheering squad, it does so in a way that's green, economical and widely available.

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