Well, I washopeful for a moment there... then I read this line. It makes me wonder who is ignorant of the basic laws of physics and chemistry... the interviewee, or the "journalist".
Details. You probably don't want to buy my perpetual motion machine, either.
This is not just a minor editorial detail. Unfortunately, the downfall of many of these biofuel schemes is that the entire SYSTEM is not thermodynamically efficient. There is a lot more to getting useful energy out of biofuels than just bugs and feedstock. There is the input problem, the refining problem and usually the WATER problem.