“Small modular coal plants”... could that mean... fireplaces and stoves? Some of these conversations remind me of one I had with a Philip Morris researcher who was talking about all sorts of hopeless ideas to resurrect tobacco use. https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/trump-doe-small-modular-coal-plants-what-does-that-mean …
Actually I believe so... they were exploring hookah 2.0 type things, and ways to use vaping as a new lease on life. Also tobacco patches. They were (and are) super desperate. So far sustained developing world tobacco use is keeping them alive.