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NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Professor Alan Goldman and his Rutgers
team in collaboration with researchers at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a way to convert carbon sources,
such as coal to diesel fuel. This important advance could
significantly cut America's dependence on foreign oil – what President
Bush called "an addiction" in his 2006 State of the Union address.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, our 286 billion tons of
coal in the ground translate into energy reserves 40 times those of oil.
"The key to energy independence in the next five decades is Fischer-Tropsch chemistry,
amended and enhanced," said Goldman, a professor in the department of
chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers, The State University of New
Jersey. "The study of catalysts, the little molecular machines that
control chemical reactions, is my field. With our new catalysts, one
can generate productive, clean burning fuels with Fischer-Tropsch,
economically and at unsurpassed levels of efficiency."
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