Oil From Coal

"The oil which her ancient foes held could now be synthesized [from coal]."

-- 📘🇺🇸🇩🇪 Germany’s Master Plan: The Story of Industrial Offensive (1943) by Joseph Borkin & Charles A. Walsh

"America has enough coal to supply 100% of our current liquid fuel needs at about $2.00 to $2.50 per gallon for over ONE THOUSAND YEARS..."

The Bergius process was licensed worldwide to Standard Oil by Germany.

• Wikipedia: Bergius process
• Wikipedia: Fischer–Tropsch process

• Source (Wayback Machine): No Oil, No Problem... for the Nazis

• Extract from Conjuring Hitler by Guido Preparata - How Britain and American made the Third Reich:

Anthony N. Stranges

Friedrich Bergius and the Rise of the German Synthetic Fuel Industry

• Download Friedrich Bergius and the Rise of the German Synthetic Fuel Industry (1984) by Anthony N. Stranges (4.2 MB) - 26 pages.
• Source: Stranges, A. N. (1984). Friedrich Bergius and the Rise of the German Synthetic Fuel Industry. Isis, 75(4), 643–667. doi:10.1086/353647

South Africa's "coal-from-oil" production: 120,000 tons of coal/day => 160,000 barrels of oil

• Source: Rhodesia and the Communist takeover from South Africa by Jan Lamprecht

Harold Schobert

The Coal-Based Jet-Fuel Program (2005)

• Download The Coal-Based Jet-Fuel Program (2005) by Harold Schobert - PDF (7.7 MB) - 45 pages.

Thom Shanker

Military Plans Tests in Search for an Alternative to Oil-Based Fuel (2006) (New York Times Article)

• Download Military Plans Tests in Search for an Alternative to Oil-Based Fuel (2006) by Thom Shanker - PDF (233 kB) - 3 pages.

James T. Bartis

Constraints on JP-900 Jet Fuel Production Concepts (2007)

Of the advanced concepts for military jet fuel production, those requiring coal tars or decant oil as inputs are limited by the availability of these feedstocks and, for certain concepts, the relatively small markets for premium grade coke.

• Download Constraints on JP-900 Jet Fuel Production Concepts (2007) by James T. Bartis - PDF (190 kB) - 23 pages.

Kristine E. Blackwell

The Department of Defense: Reducing Its Reliance on Fossil-Based Aviation Fuel Issues for Congress (2007)

• Download The Department of Defense: Reducing Its Reliance on Fossil-Based Aviation Fuel Issues for Congress (2007) by Kristine E. Blackwell - PDF (506 kB) - 46 pages.

Friedrich Kurreck

Life in The Third Reich

Details coal-from-oil and other advances in technology and chemicals and why they were made.