We're SAVED!!! Jet fuel from cellulose.

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1. All the solutions seem only to delay the inevitable

I don't understand the chemistry and technicals in the paper, of course, but it seems similar to biomass energy to me. Biomass burns wood, mostly from wood chips, scrub, and dead trees. It's criticized for CO2 emissions, but isn't it reducing future natural decay (emissions) in order to burn now?

https://vnews.com/2025/09/26/column-vermonts-wood-fired-power-plants-can-lead-the-way-on-climate-change/

Here is a hopelessly rosy, optimistic, forward-looking, “free market” climate remedy that might actually work. Vermont’s two wood plants, McNeil and Ryegate, are losing money and emit over 600,000 tons of CO2 per year. That’s most of the CO2 the state Climate Council wants to reduce after setbacks to the Clean Heat Standard, EV stations and the regional Transportation and Climate Initiative. These programs deserved completion, not cancellation.

Fortunately, a multi-system upgrade can double the operating efficiency of the McNeil and Ryegate power plants, increase electric output and accrue valuable carbon credits by simultaneously reducing CO2 gas at emission point and removing it from the atmosphere. So, these projects should be quite lucrative and will salvage old power plants that are fast becoming obsolete. The same is true of such plants across the country.

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The Clean Heat Standard might have come with a robust biofuel program to give farmers new cash crops and put more affordable heating oil on the market with carbon offsets factored into the price. Biofuels and heat pumps might seem odd partners but cover each other’s political flaws.

So, instead of emitting CO2, these redesigned, multi-system power stations would capture, reduce and reuse CO2 from point of emission to make synthetic fuels or feedstocks such as graphite or calcium carbonate. New catalysts can turn CO2 and H2O into synthetic fuels, such as H2, methane, methanol, ethanol, gasoline and diesel. These fuels can augment fuel supply by over 20% or be sold as low-carbon fuels. Feedstocks are yet another profit center. The green icing comes from verified CO2 reductions, traded as carbon credits on the Voluntary and Compliance Carbon Markets (CCM) in the EU, California and China.