Re: Research Topics

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In a message dated 4/18/02 2:40:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, kchisholm@ca.inter.net writes:


> While you will never see jet planes running on wood chips, you might see
> them running on some liquid fuel that was biomass sourced. I am guessing
> that this "new biomass jet fuel" will not be methanol, for the simple reason
> that it is very difficult to imagine methanol from wood being cheaper than
> methanol from coal.


While this is a very good point, one simple fix for this is governmental intervention. If governments will initially promote biomass production for petroleum replacements with tax credits or some similar incentive, this will help develop an industry that will begin to initiate improvements to biomass production and delivery that will make it increasingly competitive with the existing petroleum and coal industries.

Fred Murrell
Biomass Development  
Bradenton, Florida USA