Great article! additional resources will become available from underground coal gassification when the price for natrl gas supports that. Long time ago economic regulatory admin, issued Natural gas policy act (1978) and PURPA which forbade natural gas use in power plants. Now the drive to fuel new power plants with natural gas will consume big volumes. That will impact cost to consumers for home heating. Plus require big transportation upgrades, incl gas pipelines to those user facilities. Also big potential as a portable auto fuel, NGP fueled vehicles as per Boone Pickens. Hopefully the political economics will allow use of the gas resource as a transition fuel to renewables and nuclear power, fusion or advanced reactors. CO2 emissions still a problem to envr activists for any fossil fuel. EPA just issued new CO2 controls for new coal fired power plants which is usurping Congressional authority. How CO2 controls roll out to other fossil energy sources take the electrical power industry outside of economics and into political arena.
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