How is wood turned into fuels anyway?
The basic building blocks of traditional fossil fuels, carbon and hydrogen, are the same as the basic building blocks in wood. Using extremely high temperatures and/or the use of special micro-organisms the building blocks are broken down into their component parts. The parts can then be pieced back together to make a variety of transportation fuels and chemicals. As an added bonus, during the process additional heat produced can be used to produce electricity, or additional gas (syngas) produced can be used instead of natural gas.
