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Re:UK Releases 130 Terabytes of Oil and Gas Data by hhmc on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @09:22AM (#19491510)
Perhaps for the purposes of energy. There are mydriad petrochem products that have no viable alternative.
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Re:UK Releases 130 Terabytes of Oil and Gas Data by mrob on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:06AM (#19491918)
No commercially viable alternative when the externalities aren't priced correctly. But hydrocarbons are already made from coal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_proces...

The same process can be used with biochar, or potentially carbon from some future carbon capture method.

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Re:UK Releases 130 Terabytes of Oil and Gas Data by solarkraft on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:06AM (#19491920)
This is true and exactly why we shouldn't burn these valuable resources.
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