Water in Synthetic Fuel Production: The Technology and the Alternatives

by Ronald F. Probstein and Harris Gold

Book Overview

In a period when easily extractable sources of relatively clean energy are dwindling worldwide and becoming increasingly expensive, the development of new energy sources-compatible with society's existing technology-has become both an urgent national priority and an increasingly competitive commercial venture. One promising source is the manufacture of synthetic fuels from coal and oil shale. A major constraint is that the processes involved require...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262660393
• ISBN13: 9780262660396
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 368 Pages