Beginning of the start of the end of oil

摘要

Here's a long view,a very long view,on the way hydrocarbon processing for energy and transport may develop over the next 50 years,starting quite possibly with a billion dollars of investment here in Europe by the time this column is printed.It'll mean gasification as a key technology,coal as a likely refinery feedstock,hydrogen and power as principal products,and carbon dioxide separation and storage as an immediate technological challenge.