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"worldnetdaily" articles are to be taken with a grain of salt.
One cannot conclusively conclude that what they post is false, but they have a reputation of very poor fact checking and not telling the whole truth.
I would emphasize this bit:
The thing about chemistry is that you can't get something for nothing. At some point you HAVE to put energy into a system.The process of converting biomass into energy is not in dispute scientifically.
"Yes it can be done, but you have to do it economically," said Dr. Art Robinson, a research professor of chemistry at the Oregon Ins ute of Science and Medicine who publishes the Access to Energy newsletter. "These other ways [of producing energy] work; the only question is if they're compe ive in price. Any hydrocarbon under pressure and temperature can turn into oil."
Take a field of wheat. When you put energy into this system in the form of sunlight, you get an absorbtion of energy, and that is converted into grain by photosynthesis.
At night, with no light, plants use oxygen and sugars and burn calories just like animals do.
This is little different. I am sure the bacteria exist, and I am sure someone will try to use them to make oil.
I am just as sure that process requires a good chunk of energy in the form of heat (the standard way that chemical energy is created/absorbed).
You can take shortcuts in enegy requirements by using enzymes, and organisms do this often, but you CANNOT violate laws of physics.
Ultimately, whether or not this process is economical depends on the amounts of energy involved. We'll see. If there is money to be made, some greedy bas will do it, if I may paraphrase the definition of capitalism.
