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A secret three-year operation where Bell Bio-Energy, Inc., a company based in Georgia, worked on ways to convert things that grow in the earth into oil, claims they now have figured it out, and are going to go public with the process.

CEO of the company, J.C. Bell, said this concerning the breakthrough: "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. 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."

What led Bell to experiment with this? He realized that the natural gases that cows emitted were in reality methane, which led him to wonder what it was within a cow that allowed it to transform food into "hydrocarbon molecules of methane." That led him to look for way he could duplicate it and make it happen faster. That's what he claims the company has accomplished.

Along with developing the process, Bell made sure it was patented properly before releasing the methodology, which he says he will reveal on a Web site developed for that purpose. (It is currently under construction.)

Bell added that the initial pilot plant should be ready to process sometime in the next several months. Expectations are the main facilities able to produce large amounts of oil will be available in a couple years.

How much oil can be produced through this method?

While this sounds like an interesting thing, you might think immediately that it could provide a little boost in oil production if it all works out.

On the contrary, Bell says it will be huge. He said with changes in a few small things with products grown through forestry and agriculture, it could create up to about 5 billion barrels of oil a year. That's about 66 percent of what we currently use in America.

What Bell wants to do now is further introduce the idea to political leaders and the public, in order to help them understand what he has and how it can work.

He says government agencies like the Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense and Department of energy, along with committees in Congress have supported the private research.

When asked why others haven't come up with this before, Bell said they were looking for answers that were too complicated.

If this all works out, it's amazing to think it simply started with asking the question of how a cow converts what it eats into methane. The answer may change the world.