Synthetic Liquid Fuels Program

The Synthetic Liquid Fuels Program was a program run by the United States Bureau of Mines to create the technology to produce synthetic fuel from coal. It was initiated in 1944 during WW II by the Synthetic Liquid Fuels Act with an initial budget of $30 million.

See also

• Jennings Randolph
• Bergius process
• Fischer-Tropsch process
• Non-conventional oil
• Oil shale
• Future energy development

References

• The Early Days of Coal Research at the U.S. Department of Energy site.
• You Don’t Need Oil To Make Fuel
• Review on Oil shale data
• German Synthetic Fuels Scientists
• The Bureau of Mines Synthetic Liquid Fuels Program 1944-55 Part 1 Oil From Coal