BIA, I was thinking of New England specifically when I thought about how gasification might be a game changer for cantonments with lots of trees around. A while ago, I did a little math on turning maple sap into ethanol to fuel the gun trucks of the State of Vermont cantonment. You need a lot of maple sap to make ethanol to run even a small fleet of trucks any distance. Worse, the primary maple sap production areas aren’t collocated with the main population center in and around Burlington. Maple sap is a resource, so be sure. Any sap can be turned into fuel, as the Japanese proved at the end of WW2. But it’s a resource that seems to have real limitations—worth pursuing by the desperate, though.
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"We're not innovating. We're selectively imitating." June Bernstein, Acting President of the University of Arizona in Tucson, November 15, 1998.
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