[url=http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/02/07/osu-process-gets-clean-coal-energy.html]OSU process gets ‘clean coal’ energy[/url].
This is a potential game-changer. With the US's coal reserves AND a way to use them without polluting or releasing CO2, this has the capability of "flipping" the oil-based economy and dependency that many nations are dealing with.
Very exciting prospect. Though I would also still like to see more progress and investment into [url=http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/143437-uranium-killed-the-thorium-star-but-now-its-time-for-round-two]neighborhood thorium reactors[/url].
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Well considering the UK is basically sat on 200 years of coal, we could gain a lot from this. The world was already planning to change back to coal so this just makes it more likely.