[QUOTE] There is 'bio crude' but that requires bio-waste, water, heat, pressure, and six minutes. Needs a further lot of energy to process it because it contains surplus amounts of oxygen, or something, that has to be removed.[/QUOTE] If you heat the biomass in a hydrogen atmosphere it will remove most of the oxygen as water leaving mostly ash and producing mainly hydrocarbons. If we did that on a large scale we could convert biomass into fuel that we could use in today's internal combustion engines without needing to cope with the problems of storing hydrogen. Elsewhere I've seen a lot of discussions recently about using thorium in high temperature nuclear reactors. The reactor temperature they propose (2200C) is just right to turn cellulose into petrol in one step, in industrial quantities.
