Abstract
The document calls for a national mobilization, by academe, government, and industry, to expeditiously move the United States economy from mainly petroleum-based industry to a more sustainable biological- and petroleum-based industry, calling for 100-plus billion gallons annually of transportation fuel and value-added chemicals and materials produced from biomass. The plant-based agricultural and forestry traditional commodity and new value-added markets can be simultaneously served without long-term negative impacts of one on the other, provided there is major biosource and bioprocess innovation for biobased industrial products. The benefits will be far-reaching, from self-sufficiency in transportation fuel to more sustainable industries, revitalization of rural economies, and improved balance of payments, to mitigation of environmental problems. Targets for biosources, processes, and costs are proposed as well as an integrated structure for success by 2025.
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