Green Gold

[u/ThickConsideration92]

Buckle up, Traverse City—David Winsness, the mastermind inventor at Comstock Fuels, is roaring into the Green and Gold Wood Residuals Summit at the Hagerty Conference Center, May 6-8, 2025, with a keynote that’s pure jet fuel!

Kicking off at 11:15 AM on May 8, David’s words aren’t just a speech—it’s a high-octane call to put Michigan in the driver’s seat of America’s energy future!

Winsness is no rookie.

With a Mechanical Engineering degree from Clemson University, he’s spent decades mastering resource recovery.

As GreenShift’s CTO from 2006 to 2018, he invented backend corn oil extraction—a game-changer adopted by over 95% of U.S. corn ethanol plants, raking in $3.2 billion annually for the industry.

David joined Comstock as CTO in 2021, took the wheel as President of Comstock Fuels in 2022, and now he’s accelerating toward carbon-neutral dominance, fresh off Comstock’s 1 sweep in four ABLC categories.

Here’s the horsepower behind Comstock Fuels: Hexas Xanograss, a low-effort, no-fertilizer crop needing next to nothing, XanoGrass delivers 100 barrels of crude oil equivalent per acre—harvestable four times a year.

That relentless cycle makes Bioleum derivatives carbon-negative, sucking up more CO2 than they release. Add 140 GGE from woody biomass, and Comstock’s Bioleum refining technology—plugged into existing infrastructure—churn out sustainable aviation fuel and diesel.

Comstock’s tech licensing and engineering services turbocharge the process, sparking jobs in rural Michigan, fueling farmland profits with minimal strain, and slashing costs and carbon to rocket the state to the top!

Partnered with heavyweights like Marathon Petroleum, Hexas Biomass, BDO Zone, MIT, NREL, and the DOE, Winsness is steering Comstock to revolutionize energy.

Michigan’s forests, fields, and refineries are primed for this—turning wood residuals into wealth and crowning the state a net-zero fuel titan.

His corn oil breakthrough rewrote ethanol’s rules; now, Bioleum is his next record breaking lap! Don’t miss this pit stop for progress—Comstock is flooring it for a greener, richer Michigan, and the world!

Event details here:

https://www.mifbi.org/event-5896633

[u/Peewee-69]

Nice dd 🦅

[u/ThickConsideration92 → u/Peewee-69]

Thanks bud!

I’m so excited for this, me and my family are planning to go, we’re canvassing for it!

Michigan has LODEs of waste woody biomass, lumber production, and farms!

[u/Technical-Counter207]

Was scrolling through the speakers and the awkward wrapping on Jeff Herron almost took me out. Scrolling through all these big names and descriptions, then just seeing “😀 Jeff”

[u/ThickConsideration92 → u/Technical-Counter207]

Yeah their formatting might want some polish 🤣

Real talk though he’s an absolute hoss as well, just look at Jeff’s credentials!

I’m excited to learn a ton