It's a Start

A team of University of Massachusetts Amherst chemical engineers have developed a way to produce high-volume chemical feedstocks including benzene, toluene, xylenes and olefins from pyrolytic bio-oils, the cheapest liquid fuels available today derived from biomass. The new process could reduce or eliminate industry’s reliance on fossil fuels to make industrial chemicals worth an estimated $400 billion annually. 

The start point for getting away from fossil fuels is finally underway thanks, in part,  to UMASS researchers doing the deed regarding industrial chemical production and how to make them while cleaning up the environment. Combine this with photonic BECs plus in depth knowledge of how photsynthesis works and you have the beginnings of something truly disruptive regarding the creation of clean, sustainable energy at real world levels, something desperately needed if we are to survive as a viable species on planet earth.