“Scientifically, this is possible… however, not all kinds of coal lend themselves to economically viable gasification.”
That is not a dismissal—that is a conditional engineering problem.
The Real Failure: Science vs Policy Continuity
Where the narrative becomes deliberately misleading is when experimental outcomes are equated with policy outcomes. A pilot producing 8MW after billions in investment is framed as “failure,” but no serious analyst asks the next question: what happened after the pilot?
Because that is where the Pakistani story always breaks.
Funding discontinuity.
Policy shifts.
Contract reallocations.
Institutional sabotage.
As one observer bluntly puts it:
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