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[novapsyche]

Grad Student Believes Wood May Replace Oil

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[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

They can have the Chinese Elms growing on my property for bio-fuel, they grow fast and are not good for much of anything, falling apart at the slightest breeze.

[droid-1.livejournal.com]

It may not be profitable using their current method of heating the sawdust, but there are alternative methods, such as solar furnaces.
(An array of mirrors to focus a lot of sunlight on one spot)

[timiathan.livejournal.com]

Sweet, now all we have to do is bio-engineer a tree that grows in 40 days instead of 40 years, and a retro-virus to wipe out the entire population of South America so we can use the entire continent as farmland! Should also _probably_ figure out how to grow the trees without any petrolium-based fertilizers, too...