despite its failure to reach its envisaged goals the programme did develop coalgasification technologies that paved the way for highly efficient integrated gasification combined cycle igcc coal power plants which were deployed around the world from the s annual production in the united states from to increased more than fold and production costs were reduced by a factor of without any subsidies and despite the material challenges associated with handling hydrogen ausubel a hydrogen pipeline is being operated between louisiana and texas and some are considering the old idea of mixing hydrogen into the national natural gas pipeline system as noted earlier more than half of all cumulative energyrelated public rdd support in iea countries since has been for nuclear power technologies