Anything that grows 'can convert into oil'

[Soldier4Christ]

Anything that grows 'can convert into oil'
Company finds natural solution that turns plants into gasoline

After three years of clandestine development, a Georgia company is now going public with a simple, natural way to convert anything that grows out of the Earth into oil.

J.C. Bell, an agricultural researcher and CEO of Bell Bio-Energy, Inc., says he's isolated and modified specific bacteria that will, on a very large scale, naturally change plant material – including the leftovers from food – into hydrocarbons to fuel cars and trucks.

"What we're doing is taking the trash like corn stalks, corn husks, corn cobs – even grass from the yard that goes to the dump – that's what we can turn into oil," Bell told WND. "I'm not going to make asphalt, we're only going to make the things we need. We're going to make gasoline for driving, diesel for our big trucks."

The agricultural researcher made the discovery after standing downwind from his cows at his food-production company, Bell Plantation, in Tifton, Ga.

"Cows are like people that eat lots of beans. They're really, really good at making natural gas," he said. "It dawned on me that that natural gas was methane."

Bell says he wondered what digestive process inside a cow enabled it to change food into the hydrocarbon molecules of methane, so he began looking into replicating and speeding up the process.

"Through genetic manipulation, we've changed the naturally occurring bacteria, so they eat and consume biomass a little more efficiently," he said. "It works. There's not even any debate that it works. It really is an all-natural, simple process that cows use on a daily basis."

But does he think it will make environmentalists happy?

"They love this. We had one totally recognizable environmentalist from Hollywood say this is everything they ever had hoped for," Bell said. "This could be considered the ultimate recycling of carbon. We are using the energy of the sun through the plant. We're not introducing any new carbon [to the environment]."

The research has received strong support from the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture and committees in both chambers of Congress, and Bell plans further discussions in Washington, D.C., next week.

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He expects to have the first pilot plant for the process running within two to three months, and will operate it for a year to collect engineering data to design full-scale production facilities. He thinks the larger facilities will be producing oil "inside the next two years."

And just how much oil is in Bell's bio-forecast?

"With minor changes in the agricultural and forestry products, we could create two to two and a half tons of biomass a year, and you're looking at 5 billion barrels of oil per year. That would be about two-thirds of what we use now."

Turning some of nature's produce into energy has been done for years, especially when it comes to the conversion of corn and cellulose-based products into ethanol, used to extend gasoline volume and boost octane.

The Energy Information Administration says in 2005, total U.S. ethanol production was 3.9 billion gallons, or 2.9 percent of the total gasoline pool.

Bell admits his bacterial breakthrough has been kept under wraps until now, but he plans to explain it all once his website is fully operational.

"We're actually gonna tell people how we do it, with streaming video. We're to the point now with our patent that we can say more and we fully intend to.

"We want to develop public support so they can understand what we're doing; to develop political support, because this is a combination of making the United States more independent from foreign oil sources; make [the country] healthier from an economic point of view; and it goes a long way to solving the environmental problems a lot of people are concerned about."

When asked why he thought no one else has patented this process, Bell answered, "It literally is because it's too simple. Everyone was looking for a real complicated mechanism. We looked at how it occurs naturally. But it's now going to develop in a hurry."

Recalling other great inventions, Bell cited on another person with his last name.

"Alexander Graham Bell put together stuff that was already on the shelf and made a phone. I don't want to compare myself to the great inventors. I'm not there yet, but to be able to look at simple things and create things from them, that's how we think in this company."

[Soldier4Christ]

If this can be done cheaply enough and on a large enough scale I think it is an excellent idea. It removes our dependency on oil, solves the food crisis situation that many claim comes from using corn products and also solves the situation with landfills that are not accepting plant waste byproducts any more.

[Brother Jerry]

The idea is nothing new.  Using veggies and other organics to make oil has been done before.  There was even a British car that ran off of veg oil. 

Problem is that it takes more energy to make it usually than it produces.  Which is why we have not done it before.  If we would just switch to nuclear power we would not have near the carbon footprint as we do and would not be using a consumable fuel.  As far as waste is concerned...we launch the shuttle every year or so....send it off into space.  I mean if there are no aliens out there then who cares if it shot out of our solar system?

[Soldier4Christ]

The idea is not new, just the process that makes it easier and cheaper to make is what is new.

There goes that term again. Carbon footprint. Such a misunderstood and misused word. It is used in a manner to make people think it is the dirty substance we see in powdered carbon. People tend to associate it with CO2 which is an entirely different substance, one having nothing to do with the other. One is a dirty substance and the other (CO2) is a substance necessary for life on earth and it is clean. A substance that cannot be seen.

Sorry, it's just that it gets to me when these environmentalists and politicians start throwing this word around as if no one is intelligent enough to know the difference.

I mean if there are no aliens out there then who cares if it shot out of our solar system?

    The aliens are already here.   

[Brother Jerry]

Grin Grin Grin Grin  The aliens are already here.   Grin Grin Grin Grin

Shhhhh....  You will blow my cover 

[nChrist]

       THANKS! - I needed that laugh.

Brothers, I was just thinking about the FACT that all Christians are aliens. This world isn't our home. We're just passing through and anxiously awaiting our REAL Citizenship in Heaven!

I was also just thinking about a little comparison that I'd like to share. For Christians, JESUS CHRIST is our ENERGY SOURCE, AND HE IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD!

Love In Christ,
Tom

John 3:16-20 NASB
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. "For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. "He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. "This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.  "For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

Matthew 5:14-16 NASB
"You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden;  nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.  "Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

John 1:1-5 NASB
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

[Brother Jerry]

You are welcome

JESUS CHRIST is our ENERGY SOURCE,

Amen to that...  I can remember several times in my teen age years where Jesus was not my co-pilot in my car....he was in the gas tank cause I had run out of fumes about 10 miles back

[nChrist]

You are welcome


Amen to that...  I can remember several times in my teen age years where Jesus was not my co-pilot in my car....he was in the gas tank cause I had run out of fumes about 10 miles back

YES - I remember doing that quite a few times. It wasn't just being forgetful, rather I ran out of money. We still run out of money from time to time, but we try to choose our time and circumstances better. People of average means usually try to put a little bit back for an unplanned emergency, BUT there's always an unplanned emergency.     If you have two between pay checks, you simply don't have hamburger with the hamburger helper. I'm going to do more than imagine that most of us remember how to go through lean times, AND GOD is with us ALWAYS.

[Soldier4Christ]

At least you had a gas tank. 

[Brother Jerry]

Roger I guess in your case it would have been that your ran out of the bail of hay about 10 miles back

[Soldier4Christ]

 

It was water for the steam engine.

[nChrist]

At least you had a gas tank. 

   YES - And here's a picture of an afternoon ride.