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Heres how they do it in china:

read more: http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Commerce/ ... s-bus.html
This is from this site:http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Commerce/

heres another one, but this used coal gas. is that the same as natural gas?
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/qf/ ... as_bag.jpg

Coal gas is an unholy alliance of Hydrogen, Methane, Carbon Monoxide and Ethylene. Natural gas is just Methane (CH4). Coal gas is a manufactured product, normally derived from the "Cokeing" process for coal.

Great Wiki article on this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_gas

Mixed feelings about having a huge bladder on top of a bus filled with flammable gas. While it's nice to have a limitless fuel supply to use, it doesn't look like safety was updated from the original 19th century technology. I'm thinking Hindenburg with a dash of Richard Pryor.

ok, so whats coal oil? Like coal juice? Can you run an engine on it?

Coal Juice; It's not just for breakfast anymore

According to a Wiki at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_oil , Coal oil is the name given to oil from "Oil Shale". Not a lot of info, but apparently you can use it to make Gasoline. I also found an article at http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0816-wsj.html which discusses turning Coal into Oil, which is really what *I* think of when someone says "Coal Oil".

Just can't get that image of a lump of coal in an orange juice squeezer out of my head.

Phil Feinstein wrote:Coal Juice; It's not just for breakfast anymore. . .Just can't get that image of a lump of coal in an orange juice squeezer out of my head.

To paraphrase Roy Scheider from the original "Jaws" movie:". . .yer gonna need a bigger juicer. . ."