US Christmas Trees - A Feedstock Source For 56 MGY Renewable Fuel: Biofuels Digest Analysis
For years, Boy Scout troops have been selling Christmas trees and in recent years, have been offering recycling services, as a fundraiser...
At 100 gallons per ton - using Coskata yield ranges for wood gasification (but, to be conservative, not the higher ranges achieved in the lab by ZeaChem with poplar of 135 gallons per ton) - that gives us a 56 Mgy figure - enough to fuel a commercial scale cellulosic ethanol plant, power the cars of 57,000 households, and displace up to 448,000 tons of CO2e per year (at 16 pounds per gallon).
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