Ummmm..hasnt perpetual motion been looked into?
There are numerous reasons that this technology could fail — but, that doesn’t put it in the “perpetual motion machine” category.
Extracting energy from hydrocarbon sources is pretty standard fare. The process, as described in the article does not require any departure from standard physics
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