Mark and Hunter--I don't know how much you know about metallurgical coke and its uses but thought I would give you a couple of paragraphs about it prior to our call tomorrow with Jim Mennell.  Jim's new enterprise is focused on creating a version of "met coke" using biomass (possibly trees but maybe another feedstock)  instead of coal.  Met coke is a carbon material manufactured by "destructive distillation" of biuminous coal.  This is usually done in coke batteries which are banks of large, enclosed kilns loaded with coal that are heated to temperatures of 1000C in the absence of air.  This process removes various volatile compounds from the coal including coal tar, ammonia, etc.  The resulting coke is a non-melting carbon which has an open, porous and often glassy appearance that comes in sizes from fine powder to basket-ball size lumps. The coke has a stable burning temperature.  It is combined with iron ore in the first step of creating iron and steel through smelting in basic oxygen furnaces (BOFs).  The average price of met coke has stabilized around $150/ton over the past year.   Hope this is useful... Mary