DC Rising Tide came out swinging at the Coal-to-Liquids conference in Washington D.C. today. 
Coal to liquid is a false solution being promoted by the coal industry as a alternative to gasoline. The industry’s argument is that we need to get off of foreign oil and here’s how. Unfortunately what they don’t mention is that the carbon intensity is twice that of gasoline and would lead to more destructive extraction.
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Activists expose coal-to-liquids as a false solution
DC Rising Tide disrupt and denounce coal conference
Washington, DC. – Local activists with DC Rising Tide and their allies interrupted a coal industry conference today to denounce coal-to-liquids as a corporate scam that would continue the destructive path of the fossil fuel industry.
“ We have had enough of corporations trying to keep us hooked on polluting fossil fuels. They seek to profit from climate change and the destruction of Appalachia.” said Amanda Duzak of Rising Tide.
Activists stood in the audience and loudly presented speeches to refute the statements of coal and oil executives from Chevron, World Coal Institute, World Petroleum Council and Consol Energy. The advocates of clean energy called for an end to the use of fossil fuels and for adoption of clean, renewable, community-based energy sources. Protesters deployed banners in the conference to highlight that “Coal kills” and “Coal takes lives” and we need “Renewable energy now.”
“Pound for pound coal produces more CO2 than almost any other form of energy production. If we’re serious about tackling climate change, we absolutely must stop mining and burning coal. Coal to liquids technology is a step in the wrong direction for our air, water and climate.” said Michael Weber of Rising Tide
The activists explained that even if the unproven, expensive, and dangerous carbon capture and storage techniques were in place, coal-to-liquids technology, which would convert coal to oil for transportation, would generate twice as much greenhouse gas emissions as oil. It would also lead to an increase in coal mining that destroys rivers and mountains and threatens community health.
“Its time to stop investing in false solutions. We are facing a climate crisis. It is time to stand up and fight for a sustainable future.” said Emma Cassidy of DC Rising Tide.
Rising Tide DC is a grassroots group of activists working towards climate justice by debunking false solutions and advocating a community-based, clean energy future.
Great strory, and congratulations to DC Rising Tide! This sort of disruptive civil disobedience is crucial to pushing for change. Bravo!
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The development of the coal industry as a alternative to gasoline is false solution. This dirty fuel creates more problems for existing vehicle fuel systems, engines and environment. It requires huge investment and long time for to get off of foreign oil.
However, two ways are available today which capability to cut USA dependence to foreign oil in most short time. At website http://www.uspto.gov shows opportunity to create 1,000 state-of –the- art gearbox designs with manual, semi-automatic and automatic regimes that limit and eliminate acceleration system of engine. They could install in machines propulsions and wind turbines.
The first way is modernizing existing propulsions of non-electric locomotives, ships, submarines, helicopters, propeller airplanes, small trucks, cars, CNC machine tools, conveyer systems.
Since energy has been relatively inexpensive until recently- and the environmental costs were largely ignored these propulsions comprising the huge power sources directly connected to working organs excluding lightweight vehicles.
Most existing lightweight vehicle propulsion designs indirectly ignore Physics Laws of Lever as are transmissions that have been replaced by clutches having two kinds. First clutch kind has name “torque converter automatic transmission” and other clutch kind has name “continuous variable automatic transmission” because they do not capability timely to get higher torque without stopping angular moment inertia of masses.
How vehicle is moves? A power of engine has been increased (up to 20 times) so that its torque cuts angular moment inertia of converter disk or two pullers and belt masses directly turns wheels on a highest gear “drive”. Then a fluid goes to different converter disk holes or belt goes up on second puller into the said automatic transmission.
For proof, you can compare the full weight and average power engine power of your car, typically 3,000 lbs and 250 hp, to weight of full loaded heavy-duty truck (80,000 lb) and the average engine power of 400 hp.
Other way is power efficiency of wind turbines have been increased in many hundred times by using revolutionary gearbox apparatus-accelerators. Therefore, using of the wind energy technology dramatically will expend because it does not dependent to density of wind, condition of location and temperature of air.
Both ways could cut oil consumption more than 50% at 2015 if we will begin to work soon as possibly in these areas.