Company Makes Radical Claims For Its Biofuels
The “Rivera Method” takes such agricultural refuse as cracked soy beans, rice and cotton seed hulls, grain sorghum, milo and jatropha and turns them into bio-crude oil. This crude – or Vetroleum, as Rivera calls it – can then be further refined into everything from gasoline to jet fuel and just about every petrochemical in between.
With this process, just one bushel (60 pounds) of organic waste can yield about six gallons of bio-crude, Rivera said.
What’s more, Rivera claims that products made from Vetroleum burn at near 100 percent efficiency, leaving behind neither heat nor pollution as proof of the chemical reactions taking place.
I would need much more information before I could make a true opinion on this. How much energy does it take to refine this product versus the energy produced by its distillates? One of the biggest problems with corn based ethanol is that it takes almost as much energy to produce the ethanol as it provides. I hope to hear more about this process.