China Is Using Coal to Produce Liquid Fuels

China Is Using Coal to Produce Liquid Fuels

China has been the world’s dominant coal user and is consuming over half of the world’s demand, consuming more coal than every other country combined. The second largest coal consumer is India, which consumes less than a third of the amount of coal that China consumes. China uses coal to fuel its enormous fleet of coal generators, which is larger than the entire U.S. generating fleet of all fuel types, but also to convert coal into liquid fuels …