Throughout World History innovation has driven societal advancement.

Most of the time governments and rulers are reactive rather than proactive when it comes to adapting to new technologies. Take for example electrical power plants. Their advent and the wiring of homes for electric lights propelled American society forward. It was such a huge innovation that government was forced to react to it nearly caught off guard as to just how societal changing electrification would. The same argument can be made for the train, the car, the plane, and a whole host of other inventions where innovation propelled us forward despite government's best efforts to hold us back.

Most of the time government is regressive as we have seen with the oil industry. Many in government seek to protect the industry rather than create the conditions that would require it to adapt. There is a tug of war in Congress between those who represent dying industries desperately trying to hold on to their profit and those who are trying to innovate the future and make America a better place.

We I am pleased that it was recently reported about a project that just might propel us into the 21st Century. Government is finally starting to take seriously some of the alternative possibilities to oil. Researcher J.C. Bell, CEO of Bell Bio-Energy, Inc has produced bacteria that can turn any decaying organic material to oil. Trash, vegetable matter, cow manure, and food waste can all be used as a source to produce oil.

This has gotten the attention of the DoD who is funding the production of three test plants for cost-benefit analysis. It is thought in 18 months the plants will produce 500,000 barrels of oil a day. In 2 years it will reach 1 million barrels of oil a day.

The U.S. currently consumes 13 million barrels of oil a day. If this project is successful, profitable, and can be ramped up we stand a good chance at being able to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil.

I am cautiously optimistic that this program will work. After all, our history is riddled with dark times that were brought to light by the mother of invention. Something such as using bacteria to produce oil from waste could be a world changing phenomenon. No more oil wars. No more energy woes. It would help us pave the way for a cleaner, safer, and earth friendly energy future.

Often at moments in our history it has been the great inventors that have blazed trails to the future. I hope this is one of those moments.

U.S. green lights 'anything into oil'

Defense Department OKs facilities turning natural produce into energy

By Joe Kovacs
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

Naturally occurring bacteria used to convert biomass into hydrocarbons.

A Georgia company looking to solve America's energy problem has finally teamed up with the federal government, hoping to make millions of barrels of oil every day from virtually anything that grows out of the Earth.

Bell Bio-Energy, Inc. says it has reached an agreement with the U.S. Defense Department to build seven test production plants, mostly on military bases, to quickly turn naturally grown material into fuel. Continues Here

Anything that grows 'can convert into oil'

Company finds natural solution that turns plants into gasoline

By Joe Kovacs
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

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." Continues Here

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