Making fuels from biomass waste

Jet and diesel fuel can be produced in a simple economic process using waste products of wood processing and pulp mills, claim US scientists. 

World decline in fossil fuel resources, rising oil prices, and an increased awareness in environmental impact has made the search for alternative renewable fuel sources extremely important. Sustainable production of fuels has been attempted using non-food biomass (composed of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin) and vegetable oils. But these methods only make light alkanes that are not suitable for use as jet and diesel fuel due to their high volatility, so jet and diesel fuels are currently still reliant on petroleum-based crude oils. More...

http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ChemScience/Volume/2010/11/making_fuels.asp