My apologies for linking to a 60 Minutes autoplay interview and accompanying transcript, but I can't find any other press on this guy.
TL;DW / TL;DR - This 80-something amateur scientist has come up with a way to break down cellulose in biomass via shooting an electron beam at it before extracting the energy chemically, and he's gotten some very reputable ex-academics on board with his company.
And it's funny because plant cellulose silverware has been a staple in Seattle for like five years now. It hadn't occurred to me that I rarely see it anywhere else.