There is a large U.S. Government funded Coal to Energy Demonstration Plant - Full Size - CALLED FUTURE-GEN or FutureGen - which is supposed to be funded by the U.S. EPA and DOE and built in Barack Obama's home State of Illinois - just outside St. Louis, Missouri, in Mattoon, Illinois. I read about it in the St. Louis Dispatch newspaper - Saint Louis Missouri Metro Newspaper - St Louis DISPATCH SEARCH FOR FUTUREGEN

This COAL to ENERGY Electric Generation Plant very importantly sequesters Carbon Dioxide - a normal biproduct of coal use in energy generation - so that the atmosphere remains undamaged. It is a very important, new technology for America and possibly for the World at Large, and the Coal Company sponsoring this Plant is either Old Ben Coal Company, or Peabody Coal Company, out of Southern Illinois, where my old college roommate David Garavalia resides and practices law. David is a clever Country Lawyer in the tradition of Abraham Lincoln and Everett Dirksen - (Father in Law of former Tennessee Senator and Lobbyist, now retired - who's name escapes me at the moment. Howard Baker.