Will someone successfully turn wood into a significant amount of human-digestible food by 2024?
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This market will resolve YES if by the end of 2024 some group credibly reports having successfully converted wood pump (or a similar source of cellulose) into >400,000 calories of food that is demonstrated to be safe for human consumption, at an estimated cost of <$10 million, using a method resembling that described here:

> "Producing sugar from lignocellulosic biomass is a promising resilient food solution to counter the near-total global failure of food production due to the agricultural collapse that would likely follow an abrupt sunlight reduction catastrophe such as a nuclear winter, a supervolcanic eruption, or a large asteroid or comet impact.

> This study examines how quickly edible sugar production could be ramped up globally by repurposing pulp and paper mills, sugarcane biorefineries, corn biorefineries, and breweries for lignocellulosic sugar production..." Keep reading.

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