Between the abundant availability of biomass and the extraction of useful energy is a yawning chasm — one into which many promising technologies have slipped and died. But now, the US multinational Honeywell appears to have a few ideas up its sleeve that may finally bridge this gap.So why has biomass remained an underdog in renewable energy (apart from factors such as supply inconsistency and volatility of price)? After all, biomass is as much a hydrocarbon as petroleum and, indeed, petroleum and coal were ...