What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind? Soft raiment, biofuels, plastics, energy, adsorbents, crystalline structure, paper, resins, chemicals, fibers, super strength building materials? But what went ye out for to see? Biomass? Yea, I say unto you, and more than biomass.

Verily I say unto you, among them that are born of sun and seed, there hath not risen a greater than biomass.

I remember a day in the land of corn, when every company wanted to be known as the carbohydrate company.  They no longer wanted to be known as a mundane starch or sugar conglomerate.  Why?  Because anything could be made from carbohydrate polymers consisting of hundreds of thousands of monosaccharide units.  Think of all the things into which you could break these polymers and how you could rebuild from the monomers.  The possibilities were endless. The days of oil were numbered. After all, most believed that oil once came from biomass.

The carbohydrate craze was killed in one small season by a famous diet.  Remember the name? Carbs became known around the world for all the wrong reasons. It still hasn’t quite recovered in some circles of food, but beef was once again what’s for dinner.

Biomass still has all the potential, but let’s not reduce our thoughts to food or to food crops or to traditional crop land.  Biomass is a worldwide complex system of carbon molecules created by life itself, drawing CO2 right out of thin air as its main ingredient. What else digests and creates from the air using free energy? You don’t just have carbs either.  You have proteins, ions, oils, waxes, and complex aromatic alcohol polymers, all of which can be broken into simpler molecules or made into more complex and targeted ones.

Literally, every week we read about new technologies to sequence, ferment, gasify, condense, liquefy, polymerize, and otherwise transform biomass into far more products than I can list in this abbreviated blog. It’s a Transformer movie happening under a microscope. Where is that magical school bus these days anyway?

So what went ye out into the wilderness to see?  Biomass done right by Genera Energy.

By Keith Brazzell, COO