Ethanol from Cellulose! What most people do not realize is that ethanol has been made from waste wood and cellulose since the early 1900"s. If it grows, you can make alcohol from it. This book contains two very good sections on the acid hydrolysis of cellulose. Typical yields are 250 to 500 pounds of alcohol from 2000 pounds of cellulose. That"s 40 to 85 gallons of free alcohol from a ton of waste wood chips.