TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - BIOLOGY - Preferred Components: The biomass-processing biocatalyst comprises one or more of a lignocellulose-processing enzyme and an alcohol-producing microbe. The plant material is derived from a plant, which is maize, soybean, millet, milo, rye, wheat, triticale, oats, barley, rice, sorghum, sudan grass, switchgrass, Miscanthus, alfalfa, cotton, sisal, hemp, jute, turf grass, rape, sunflower, willow, Eucalyptus, poplar, pine, tobacco, clover, bamboo, flax, pea, radish, turnip, potato, sweet potato, cassava, taro, beet, sugar beet, sugar cane or canola. The biomass comprises one or more of whole plant corn, corn stover, corn cobs or soybean forage. The biomass comprises plant material selected based on one or more characteristic of sugar content, cellulose content, lignin content, cost, growing season, drought resistance, disease resistance, individual plant size or tonnage. The biomass comprises plant material from a male-sterile, tropical hybrid corn plant, where at least a portion of the plant material is derived from a transgenic plant comprising one or more lignocellulose-processing enzyme (preferably amylase).    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - INSTRUMENTATION AND TESTING - Preferred Components: The atmospherically controlled chamber is an upright silo. In the system, each of the one or more remotely located liquid biomass extract production sites is at least 8 kilometers from the treatment facility.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Process: In the process for converting biomass to a liquid biomass extract: providing the biomass further comprises chopping the biomass, where the chopping comprises chopping the biomass to a theoretical length of cut (TLC) between 0.3-1.3 centimeters; the suitable conditions further comprise providing an inoculant comprising one or more biomass-processing biocatalyst, where the inoculant is added to the biomass prior to or during the placing of the biomass into the atmospherically controlled chamber; the harvesting is timed to provide a plant material comprising a moisture content of 75% or more; the period of time is 20 hours to 21 days, preferably 24-72 hours; the collecting comprises one or more of centrifuging, pressing or decanting; the plant material is harvested at a first location and the atmospherically controlled chamber is at a location at or in close proximity to the first location, which further comprises transporting the liquid biomass extract to a second location and treating the liquid biomass extract to provide a biofuel, where the second location is an ethanol plant; purifying the liquid biomass extract to provide a purified alcohol comprises separating alcohol from biomass-derived water by one or more of distilling and drying over molecular sieves, where the purified alcohol is mixed with gasoline to provide the biofuel; and one or more of pH, enzymatic activity level, microbial activity level or viscosity of the liquid biomass extract is adjusted prior to the transporting. The transporting comprises piping the liquid biomass extract for at least 8 (preferably 160) kilometers. The treating of liquid biomass extract comprises one or more of fermenting fermentable sugars in the liquid biomass extract and purifying the liquid biomass extract to provide a purified alcohol, where the treating further comprises saccharifying water soluble carbohydrates in the liquid biomass extract. The process further comprises monitoring contents of the atmospherically controlled chamber at one or more locations in the chamber to determine one or more of pH, temperature, oxygen gas content, escaping gases, microbial activity, enzymatic activity, % dry matter (DM) conversion, % of theoretical sugars converted, fermentable sugars concentration, alcohol concentration, plant material-derived acid concentration or microbial nutrient concentration, where the conditions in the atmospherically controlled chamber are adjusted during the period of time to alter one or more of pH, temperature, oxygen gas content, microbial activity, enzymatic activity or microbial nutrient content. The process of for converting biomass to a liquid biomass extract further comprises: treating the residual solids fraction to provide one or more co-products, which is an animal feed, a fertilizer, methanol or a boiler fuel; collecting the biomass-derived water from the liquid biomass extract and using the biomass-derived water for one or more of irrigating a biomass plant material prior to harvesting; diluting the biomass or liquid biomass extract for saccharification, fermentation, or saccharification and fermentation; processing a residual solids fraction; and distilling a biofuel. In the process for converting biomass to a liquid biomass extract: providing biomass further comprises freezing the biomass to control endogenous microbes and/or to break down lignocellulosic materials within the biomass; and conditions within the atmospherically controlled chamber comprise heat generated by one or more of plant cell respiration, microbial activity or enzymatic activity, where the heat generated by one or more of plant cell respiration, microbial activity or enzymatic activity is controlled by one or more of biomass moisture, ambient harvest temperature, biomass TLC, oxygen content of the atmospherically controlled chamber, nutrients, pH, inoculant load, inoculant type or a heat exchange system, and provides the liquefied biomass in the absence of additional heat. In the process for converting biomass to biofuel: placing the biomass into an atmospherically controlled chamber at or in close proximity to the first location for a period of time and under suitable conditions to effect saccharification of the biomass and/or alcohol fermentation of the biomass comprises: filling the atmospherically controlled chamber with the biomass; and monitoring one or more of temperature, atmospheric oxygen level, escaping gases, pH, production or loss of saccharification products, production of alcohol fermentation products or production of acid fermentation products, where the monitoring comprises monitoring one or more of % dry matter (DM) conversion, % of theoretical sugars converted, fermentable sugar concentration or alcohol concentration; preparing the slurry comprises preparing a mixture comprising 40% residual solids; placing the biomass into an atmospherically controlled chamber at or in close proximity to the first location for a period of time and under suitable conditions to effect saccharification of the biomass and/or alcohol fermentation of the biomass, to provide a liquefied biomass, where the liquefied biomass comprises one or more of repeat annual use of the atmospherically controlled chamber and multi-crop use of the atmospherically controlled chamber; and the transporting comprises piping the slurry to the second location. In the process of converting biomass into biofuel, at least a portion of the inoculant is added to the biomass during the chopping. Preferred Components: The inoculant further comprises one or more additive, which is a biocatalyst nutrient, a biocatalyst growth factor, a pH-adjusting agent, an electrolyte, a nitrogen-containing chemical, an antimicrobial agent, an oxygen-depleting agent, a beneficial microbe, a plasticizer, and/or a softener. The oxygen-depleting agent is carbon dioxide gas or chloropicrin. The nitrogen-containing chemical is ammonia, ammonium chloride, urea, ammonium nitrate or ammonium phosphate. The liquid biomass extract comprises water soluble products and at least 80% of the biomass-derived water from the first portion and the one or more additional portions of the liquefied biomass, and the residual solids fraction comprises the residual solids and 20% of the biomass-derived water from the first portion and the one or more additional portions of the liquefied biomass. In the process for converting biomass to biofuel: the alcohol is ethanol; the inoculant comprises one or more biomass-processing biocatalyst, where the biomass-processing biocatalyst comprises one or more lignocellulose-processing enzyme, which is an amylase, a cellulase, a lignase or an ethanol-producing microbe. In the process for converting biomass to biofuel: the inoculant comprises one or more lignocellulose-processing enzyme and an alcohol-producing microbe. EXAMPLE - No suitable example given.