The US Department of Energy is promoting its biofuels research at the Other Place with the message:

DidYouKnow: Biomass is the most abundant biological material on the planet. It is renewable grows almost everywhere, and provides fuel, power, chemicals and many other products. In total the industry has a $1 billion impact on the U.S. economy. A new documentary video tells the story of the future of the bioenergy and some of the individuals who are helping drive #biofuels forward. Watch it now → http://go.usa.gov/NQgm

The link leads to "Biomass 2014: Growing The Future Bioeconomy" with a video highlighting several projects. There's little if any efficiency, quantity, or cost information presented. Nor of the elephant in the room of any biofuels proposal: biological limits of availability...

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r/dredmorbius - The intractable problem of biomass for fuels is HANNP / photosynthetic ceiling

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