The co-production of liquid fuels, chemicals and electric power from our abundant United States Coal in a single, integrated facility can be, according to our United States Department of Energy, profitable.
And, such potentials for what is in some places referred to as "polygeneration" might come to be seen as much, much more economically important, even critical, as the realization that we don't have nearly as much shale natural gas economically accessible or recoverable as it's non-analytical and uncritical proponents would have had us believe dawns across our nation.