Nova program on Netflix

Some thoughts on that:  it was about the next big thing.  One of ideas that caught my attention was about energy.  One fellow from Nebraska wants to bioengineer microbes to produce diesel fuel.  My reaction is that this is all fine and dandy, but you are still using internal combustion engines.  A question:  would it be feasible to use a fuel processor on this biofuel, or any other biofuel?