The past is prologue. The discussion may well have been in the past, but the matter is hardly dated. What is clear is that the issue of CTL and carbon capture will remain a viable energy alternative worth exploration and, with the new administration, likely to find the feds and states looking to provide tax incentives to engage the process and, with it, there will be an avenue to financing.
If you recall, NSOL/FFI was one of only a small number of companies mentioned in the DOE presentation. It would be intellectually dishonest to suggest that has no merit. In truth, when a federal agency so notes an organization, it implies and imparts a certain level of credibility...