What do you heat it to 900 degrees with?
"What do you heat it to 900 degrees with?"
A a big magnifying glass.
Hydrogen.
So we take wood pulp,skip turning it into COAL,but turn it into oil...and at the same time we are taking coal and turning it into GAS...and at the same time we want to some how produce hydrogen fuel from....nevermind,i need another cup of joe
Typically, either part of the feedstock, product, or a waste product from the process. Best would be the waste product, obviously.
But why bother. Seems far easier to do destructive distillation of the wood to produce more methanol, and then just burn the methanol. Converting wood AND methanol to "bio-oil" seems a bit counter-productive.
Ethanol!
Like any of the depolymerization techniques, this can be done with a small fraction of the energy gained in the output, as is true with oil refineries. Trees, as all life on earth, are hydrocarbon based. Trees get their energy from the sun to grow, which is converted into hydrocarbons. Therefore, all hydrocarbon based energy sources are really "solar power."
LOL! There you go again -- thinking! Doesn't that always get you in trouble?
Probably an electric furnace.
Firewood ?