Can companies make the case now that coal gasification is economical?
Boyce: Well, if you try and compare it to everybody’s electricity cost today it doesn’t compare. It’s more expensive, but then everything is getting more expensive. So when you look at coal gasification or carbon capture and sequestration, it looks like it will compete with natural gas, the cost of natural gas. It’ll compete with new nuclear. It’ll compete with all of these other technologies for electricity generation and so that’s why everybody wants to very quickly get to a point where we can demonstrate it on a large scale.
