It is not really necessary to refine biomass into a sophisticated fuel such as methanol to get energy (or some other positive) use from it.

California had a large number of cogeneration plants at one time, many located in the Central Valley farming area. Essentially, these were electricity-producing plants and burned natural gas. However, at some point in the prosess, when the burners were hot and able to burn such things, organic waste was fed in. The quantity could be as much as 15% of the total fuel used with no significant loss of power.

Some of the organic material delivered were walnut shells, moldy hay, sawdust and wood chips, dry corn stalks, etc. A savings of 15% in fuel at every natural gas-poweded plant would be a huge savings and such material would not go to the landfills. No downside I can think of unless the people pushing the Global Warming myth get in power.