When in 1939 war did break out between Germany on the one hand, and Britain and France on the other, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dutifully invoked the Neutrality Acts. However, he believed that this was a fundamentally different war from World War I.
Another advanced coal technology is coal gasification, a process in which coal is converted to a gas (called syngas) before it is burned, making it easier to separate CO2 as a relatively pure gas before power is generated.
Geological science and associated technology are used to find and evaluate the coal resources that will be used to meet these needs, a process referred to as coal exploration, and to assist in designing and operating effective systems for coal mining (coal mining geology), preparation and utilization tasks.