We need to come up with a range of regenerative ways to produce plant materials for manufacturing and bio-fuels. Ways that sink atmosphpheric carbon into soils, and mulch the top of them to help keep them moist, mine minerals from the subsoil and deposit them into topsoil, and so on. Things like leguminous plants grown as cover crops in the off season, whose fruit, fibre, or both can be harvested, after they add nitrogen to the soil.
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> biotech for efficiently catalysing feedstock to biofuel is patented by BP
The fossil fuel companies know better than anyone that their only hope for a future as a business is pivoting to renewables. But you can only patent specific methods, for which there is no prior art. Their patented methods probably involve GM microorganisms that we would be best to avoid.