It might be a good way to get a transportable form of solar - use it w/o transmission (or distant transmission) to process solid -> liquid/gas and transport tha

It might be a good way to get a transportable form of solar - use it w/o transmission (or distant transmission) to process solid -> liquid/gas and transport that. Processing the coal might be able to reduce some of the worst environmental effects (sulfur?). They took what looked like an easy solution that would help integrate Russian into the European economy. Not every decision pans out.