Naughty to nice with a coal-made home

Instead of brick by brick, X-MAT, the advanced materials division of Semplastics, is looking to build homes lump by lump with coal, and with a recent approval of funding by the Department of Energy to build a test house, this may become a new contemporary material of future homes.

Earlier this month, X-MAT received a $625,000 contract from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology...