I used to work at one of these as it was being thought up - boots on the ground so to speak, straight out high school. Both my father and grandfather were union

I used to work at one of these as it was being thought up - boots on the ground so to speak, straight out high school. Both my father and grandfather were union pipefitters, welders. They mixed the coal with asphalt in a big ole mixer. Bulldozers push coal into a hopper, conveyors take the coal up a few stories and it falls down a Shute and gets mixed with asphalt prior to being burned in the coal fired steam plant. We had four large towers of asphalt holding tanks, they had to be climbed regularly to check to make sure we didn’t overflow them while pumping off tankers. I don’t know how this is supposed to reduce CO2 emissions or how to capture it on the back end, but that’s the beginning stage of making coal more environmentally friendly. You mix the coal with something else and have to create an entirely new mountain pile of mixed coal and you burn that. The logistics of mixing coal with asphalt - not so easy. I read the GAO 33 page report to make sure my local power company is listed, yep. Southern Company shut down the operation. They’ve had DOE signs at the entrance for 20 years at least.