Sounds like a tremendous waste of good money to me. Somebody with a technical background sold somebody without a technical background a bill of goods.
Trees take in Carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen. Burning trees (wood) releases the carbon dioxide back into the air. So when we process this, we remove the carbon dioxide digester and turn it into a carbon dioxide generator.
The understated costs are rediculous. Tree waste or wood waste is cheap if you do it in a localized environment, turn that into an industry and the costs rise. I dont have the information available to me nor the technical knowledge to figure out the efficiency factor to see how much energy it takes to calculate how much energy it produces. The problem with hydrogen fuel cells at this point is that it consumes more energy than it produces. IT has better potential because we have plenty of water and after hydrogen burns, it becomes water again.
Another falacy, as far as practicality is concerned, is that wood is not a practical renewable resource. Someone has to own the real estate. Real estate has a value. You will have to tie up that real estate for a very long time to get a decent amount of wood from it. If we did this for an energy resource, it would come to an end after just a few harvests. The nutrients in the soil will eventually have to be replaced. That means fetilizer which also means more energy consumption.
Money invested would have given a better return in research with wind, water, solar, hydrogen fuel cells and nuclear. Somehow, that don't seem as interesting as "wow, turning trees into gasoline".
Let the games begin.