{"id":"bgfabcb","internal_id":"c350c6fa-ce74-4f60-91da-8e579596a054","links":{"img_thumbnail":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/downloads/deriv/8p5fwvi/thumb_large_2X?disposition=inline","html_self":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/bgfabcb"},"title":"Carbogel Coal-Water Fuel: The Energy Solution...","additional_title":[],"format":["image","text"],"genre":["Pamphlets"],"medium":[],"extent":["23.5 cm W x 30 cm H"],"language":["English"],"provenance":"","subject":["Coal-water fuel","Coal slurry","Cape Breton Development Corporation (Canada)","Carbogel, Inc."],"department":"Archives","series_arrangement":["Series II. R&D Files"],"rights":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/","rights_holder":"Cape Breton Development Corporation (Canada)","digitization_funder":"","file_creator":"Auerbach, Jahna","description":"1980s pamphlet promoting Carbogel's collaboration with the Cape Breton Development Corporation in Nova Scotia. \n\nCarbogel, Incorporated, founded in 1983, developed and licensed methods for slurrying coal to create what became known as coal-water fuels. Carbogel promised public utilities and industry a “secure and environmentally safe energy supply” that would insulate them from both the volatility of the oil economy and the costs of complying with increasingly stringent environmental controls. ","description_html":"<p>1980s pamphlet promoting Carbogel's collaboration with the Cape Breton Development Corporation in Nova Scotia. </p>\n\n<p>Carbogel, Incorporated, founded in 1983, developed and licensed methods for slurrying coal to create what became known as coal-water fuels. Carbogel promised public utilities and industry a “secure and environmentally safe energy supply” that would insulate them from both the volatility of the oil economy and the costs of complying with increasingly stringent environmental controls. </p>","published_at":"2026-06-25T19:26:07Z","updated_at":"2026-06-25T19:26:07Z","creator":[{"category":"creator_of_work","value":"Cape Breton Development Corporation (Canada)"},{"category":"creator_of_work","value":"Carbogel, Inc."}],"date_of_work":[{"start":"1984","start_qualifier":"circa","finish":"","finish_qualifier":"","note":"","formatted":"Circa 1984"}],"place":[{"category":"place_of_creation","value":"Canada"}],"inscription":[],"related_link":[{"url":"https://www.sciencehistory.org/collections/blog/the-slurry-solution/","category":"institute_article","label":"The Slurry: Solution Carbogel’s post-oil embargo take on “clean coal.\""}],"additional_credit":[],"physical_container":{"box":"5","folder":"2","volume":"","part":"","page":"","shelfmark":"","reel":"","formatted":"Box 5, Folder 2"}}