{"id":144053,"date":"2026-01-13T04:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144053"},"modified":"2026-01-13T04:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:00:11","slug":"china-planning-dozens-of-plants-that-use-coal-instead-of-oil-to-make-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144053","title":{"rendered":"China planning dozens of plants that use coal instead of oil to make plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina is stepping up its efforts to use its vast coal reserves instead of oil to produce plastics and synthetic rubber.<br \/>\nCoal can be refined to make olefins \u2013 an essential raw material for tens of thousands of chemical products that include plastics, synthetic fibres and rubber.<br \/>\nWhile the mainstream practice is to produce olefins from oil, using coal can bring significant cost savings and might help to reduce the country\u2019s reliance on imported fuel at a time when Donald Trump is seeking to expand&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3339629\/china-planning-dozens-plants-use-coal-instead-oil-make-plastics?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina is stepping up its efforts to use its vast coal reserves instead of oil to produce plastics and synthetic rubber. Coal can be&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144053"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}