From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Richard Smith"  wrote in message news:m1jz2n99ki.fsf@void.com...   
      
   You make a good point - you could also inject water to get hydrogen too.   
   As this is to be used at the power-station, if the gas is 100%   
   carbon-monoxide that isn't an issue.   
      
   There is in-situ coal gasification in the geological strata - which is   
   done, fuelling power-plants - with mix of CO and H2.   
      
   A lot of the point here is to take open-cast pit quarried coal and have   
   a heaps of it - millions of tonnes per.  Even if you have no coal   
   yourself - import it in bulkers across the sea.  To give yourself time   
   if things go a bit topsy-turvy.   
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   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_gas   
   The greenies still have the sulfur, phosphorus and arsenic residues to   
   protest. I don't see them living with the restrictions they demand, not even   
   clotheslines instead of dryers.   
      
   There are many old methods we might revert to after running out of the more   
   convenient ones we use now. I've explored some, like firewood heat and hot   
   water and a clothesline. We lived that way when I was little, and my   
   southern mountain grandparents didn't have electricity or running water   
   until Dad had learned enough while updating our 1830 house to install it for   
   them in the 1970's. Trying to split wood at 9000' at an uncle's cabin in   
   Colorado very quickly reminded me I wasn't used to the thin air. I carried   
   hot water out to the well to thaw the frozen pump. There was no reading   
   material in the outhouse because one didn't stay any longer than absolutely   
   necessary. For the women that was the worst part, the men didn't mind as   
   much. In the Army I spent two not unpleasant weeks in December 1972 camping   
   on a snow covered German mountain top. After that I could and did sleep out   
   on the ground.   
      
   Firewood heat is said to require 5 acres to harvest it continuously for one   
   house. My improvements have cut my consumption to less than half the norm   
   others with similar houses report around here, 1/3 in mild winters.   
      
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