I wonder about that. Let’s take wood pellets, the largest market of which being converted coal-fired plants in Britain and Germany. Texas and North Carolina pr

I wonder about that. Let’s take wood pellets, the largest market of which being converted coal-fired plants in Britain and Germany. Texas and North Carolina produce them for export. Under perfect conditions, waste sawdust becomes pellets but it’s understood in those states that old-growth timber is used. Shelled corn burns hotter than wood, and biomass pellet stoves make up a marginal part of the domestic heating market. For export, where heating and power generation are disrupted by war, shipping that corn seems a good transitional step without the harm associated with somehow discovering new sources of wood pellets.