Efficient cascading
Mitigation of global warming effects will require recycling
of large volumes of CO2. The only market that is large
enough to absorb such large volumes of CO2 is the fuel
market. Unfortunately, fuels have a rather low economic
value. To make the exploitation of biomass financially
viable, fuel production will have to be combined with the
generation of high-value products. In the bio based
economy this is called the principle of cascading: the use of
biomass with a focus on its highest value use.