I watched the video. Why should I pay someone to take the steps described, pay for that product and incur the cost of switching to oil heat when I can gather wood on my own property and use it raw? What could be more “energy independent” than that?
In the video, what was the first product of the distillation process?
82 octane Gasoline!!
Not everybody lives near woods. Not everybody even lives in a single-family house. Not everybody’s house is laid out in such a way that a wood-burning stove is going to heat the whole thing. And so far nobody has devised a modern car that will go if you just load a few logs into it and toss a match on the kindling. This seems like a good idea for people who, unlike you and me, don’t have access to woodlands for home heating.
But I have to say one thing: I’d rather they gassify garbage, as is done in Norway, than use wood. If wood is heavily used it will just drive the price of firewood up beyond what we ordinary people can afford for our fireplaces and woodstoves. There’s always garbage to use, and it’s better to gassify it than bury it or build enormous, costly government incinerators to burn it.
Personally I’d rather go back to burning my own garbage in my own back yard, but the community association fascists will take me to court if I do.