Treethanol

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. For the last several years I've been talking about pine tree property in Georgia, in the area where my parents where born. Because of the boom in construction, and exports of hardwoods to china, the market for timber has boomed. More recently, the desire to create additonal high-yield sources of ethanol from other than food crops has caused energy investors to look towards pine trees. Recently, Vinod Khosla committed to invest over $200M with Range Fuels in Soperton Georgia, the same area I've been looking at for a while. Right now, my email is filling up with notes from people trying to jump into this "treethanol" boom in Georgia. Hopefully, this is a sustainable alternative to using corn or sugar cane for ethanol production.