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Hi Homey,

I beg to differ on UCG as a proven technology. I can point to over 45 trial. All of which have successfully produced gas. In the 70's and 80's the US DOE spent hundred of millions of dollars on research and declined to fund further trials because it believed the technology had been proven.

Eash time a project is undertaken a trial is required to understand the optimal operating paramaters which go int the design of design of the plant. This is analagous to a trial pit at a coal mine. Although I like to think of it as being similar to new motor vehicles. There is no question that motor vehicles are a proven technology yet every new car model undergoes extensive trialing before moving into production.

UCG Fan