Reply To: GMO Eucalyptus groves being planted in US

[Bob Luther]

these trees are not to be harvested for cheap plywood, in fact eucalyptus has little timber value, the first eucalyptus was brought to the US for railroad ties, but the wood was found to be too brittle to use for ties. These trees are to be grown for wood fiber fuel to power powerplants as our society moves away from coal and petroleum. Cellular biomass (wood and grass pulp) has a huge potential for fuel without the issues of food crop (i.e. corn/soybean) market values.