[DGthe3]

This stuff will encourage people to plant trees which don't need fertilization, or pesticides (well not as much anyway), and soak up more CO2 on a per acre basis. This is the greenest thing to happen to the auto industry since Coskata.

Imagine if the land which is used to grow corn for ethanol were used for these trees instead? there are ~5 billion gallons of ethanol used in cars each year. I think they are off for their ethanol production. I've read that an acre up to 300 gallons, not 30. Still, this stuff is 4x more productive than corn at that rate. that makes for 20 billion gallons of diesel using the same amount of land, around 50% of your national diesel consumption, potentially more. And its completely renewable.