Too bad there are so many comments by people who did not watch the video.
Liquid fuel aka oil has a very high energy density which makes it good for something mobile aka a car.
If this process can take any cellulose rich source then you don’t have to use wood but Kudzu would be cheap if not free and very fast growing.
There was a company looking to make ethanol from Kudzu but the break even point was way too close to current energy costs and converting the cellulose to sugars for the distillation process was expensive. This simple 2 step process just might help in the creation of not just oil but ethanol while at the same time reducing a very fast growing intrusive plant like Kudzu.
If this would finally give people a reason to kill kudzu in industrial-sized lots, I’d be all for it! There are parts of ‘bama that have completely disappeared because of kudzu.
Kudzu is used as a valuable plant in Japan. The starch in the root is of fine quality and can be used for cooking and desserts. Rather like arrowroot or cornstarch, but I think more nutritious. Last time I looked a 1/2 lb. package of kudzu starch was over $5 at Whole Foods. The vines have a fiber that can be used for textile purposes. I have a booklet somewhere?? that has a lot of information on Kudzu, but I imagine you can find good information on Google. For the fibers I think they recommended rolling up long vines in open loops like a grape vine wreath, then put it in water for a few weeks until the outer vegetation rots off leaving the inner fiber. Then there are some ways to process the remaining fiber, but I forget what they were. At any rate if someone has access to a lot of Kudzu, they ought to look into some of these commercial uses.