Environmentally-Enabled Input-Output

Densified Superwood - Stronger than most titanium alloys
Bullet-proof super wood is created from soft woods like pine or balsa by bonding hydrogen between cellulose molecules using hot compression after partially removing lignin. Softwood grows faster and therefore provides a quicker return on investment. The process replaces the use of slower-growing but denser woods in furniture, parts manufacturing and construction.

Transparent Wood - Three times better insulator than glass
Infused with polymers and sturdier than traditional wood, transparent wood can be used in place of less environmentally friendly materials, such as plastics. As a daylight-harvesting roof, the aligned wood channels guide sunlight into building interiors without relying on the sun’s angle.

Mass Timber Construction
While steel and concrete construction release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere during construction, wood construction traps and stores carbon for hundreds of years, after which it can be recycled or used as fuel. In February of 2020 Macy's headquarters announced their move into Georgia's first mass timber office building - T3 West Midtown at Atlantic Station.

Southern U.S. Wood Pellet Market: Increasing forest acreage and carbon storage
Carbon capture varies widely based on the final use of wood pellets for fuel. The European energy industry is using subsidies to outbid the US wood construction and biochemical industry for biomass, which includes low-value whole trees, branches and waste wood chips. Under current trade policies, as more countries export US wood pellets, their power plants may not have the same carbon capture goals as the Drax biomass energy plant in the United Kingdom.

Starting in 2022, the LanzaJet biofuel plant in Soperton, Georgia will begin producing jet fuel from wood chips and other waste material using a process the U.S Energy Department’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) developed to upgrade ethanol from plant and animal materials to alcohol-to-jet synthetic paraffinic kerosene (ATJ-SPK).  "The process could help a steel mill recycle 120,000 tons of carbon a year, which would be the equivalent of removing 100,000 cars from the road."

The Celera 500L and 1000L operates on Jet A1 and biodiesel, with the future option for electric. The 6 and 12 passenger pusher-prop planes have jet-equivalent speeds of 460 miles per hour, with eight times lower fuel consumption than jets. With a flight range twice that of comparably sized craft, the Celera will be able to traverse any city pairing in the US thanks to its "laminar flow" body shape. Providing 18 to 25 miles/gal fuel economy, compared to the 2 to 3 miles/gal for a jet aircraft, these small, fast, efficient planes offer six times lower operating costs for smaller direct flights that increase public safety by eliminating the need for crowed airports and waiting lines.