I don't fully agree with your conclusions. Yes, indeed, grinding up trees to make pellets and shipping them across an ocean is crazy. But there is no reason that organic matter (grass clippings, branches, agro waste, saw mill waste, bush hog waste, etc etc etc) can not be efficiently converted to oil and burned to generate electricity nearby. For example, if a township has a modern biomass unit and converts all township organic waste to power. This is truly sustainable and sensible. If you put this waste in the dump, it will just convert to CO2 and Methane anyway. Why not burn it and use the energy? This source of energy should get much more attention than it does. Your article does a real disservice as it makes it sound impossible for biomass to ever be a good idea, which is simply not true.