Makes me wanna say "Hey there little Red Riding Hood". Just kidding.
I'm not kidding about my belief in somebody, somehow, someway, creating energy any other way than good ol' God given coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear.
WITHOUT SUBSIDIES, the investment road is littered, as Gramps put it, with all the solar, wind, landfill, ethanol, oilshale (billion $ loser for Exxon), tar sand (loser in Canada at below $30 crude),fecal scams known to man.
Despite the clout of the people you refer to, this thing does not DEFY the laws of physics. Given the clout, political muscle and huge subsidies absolutely necessary, you might have a WINNER, BUT we're ALL GONNA pay TO MAKE IT WORK. My money stays in oil & gas. I know that works.
Great, then you should like this process. They take God-given animal guts and plants. And then they boil them to create oil. And then they refine that to produce gasoline.
The usual way is to take God-given animal guts and plants. And then reduce them slowly over a period of millions of years. And then they refine that to produce gasoline. This process speeds it up a bit.
This isn't geothermal, solar, tide power, windmills, french fry grease, or any other kind of "alternate energy". It's oil.
It's hillarious to watch the usually pro-entrepreneurship Freepers screaming about how this must be a trick by the Democrats or the Freemasons or the Martians or something. Some genius has figured out a way to convert one kind of carbon (animal tissue) into another (crude oil), just like somebody once figured out a way to convert one kind of carbon (crude oil) into another (gasoline). But, no, this kind of engineering and hard work is suspect somehow.