The Unfulfilled Promise of Synthetic Fuels: Technological Failure, Policy Immobilism, or Commercial Illusion

by Ernest J. Yanarella

The dismantling of the Synthetic Fuels Corporation and the shelving of scores of synfuel plant proposals have triggered a need for a searching inquiry into the reasons why the initial promise of synfuels has not been realized. In this volume a distinguished group of political scientists, policy analysts, and energy planners apply the critical tools of economic, scientific, and political analysis in an attempt to illuminate why the dream of synthetic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313256667
• ISBN13: 9780313256660
• Release Date: August 1987
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"