It has been claimed that coal, which we can consider to be pure carbon, can as a

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It has been claimed that coal, which we can consider to be pure carbon, can as a result of microbial action react with water in situ and be converted to methane by the reaction: 

2C + 2HO CH4 + CO

Is this reaction possible without the use of nutrients or another free energy source.

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