Green Left: The coal industry is planning to replace oil by turning coal into liquid fuels and into feedstocks for the chemical industry. Of course they are also planning to burn ever-more coal to produce electricity. If these plans materialise, green chemistry and renewable solar energy will both be sidelined for the rest of this century. You may have heard that “coal is dead”. But this is not the case; in its struggle for survival, the coal industry has an ace in the hole. In July, the …