The production of coal, which can be won economically by underground mining, is limited. Therefore, we are obliged to give up some amounts of useful coal resources. For instance, such coal reserves in Tikuho coal field is estimated about one billion ton.
Then, the author propose to develope the new techniques which extract and utilize the coal in gaseous state by underground gasification.
Namely, we get high grade water gas by applying the combined method both with producer gas and water gas reactions to the underground coal seams, and then synthesize the final products (town gas or synthetic gasoline) by the Fischer-Tropsch process.