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Posted Thu Jun 19 2008: from North Channel Sentinel (TX): Biocrude from waste too good to be true? http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1213891416 Now Rivera must convince potential investors that his trade secret – 21 years and $31 million dollars in the making – isn’t just a bunch of smoke and mirrors. 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. [Read more stories about: alternative energy] This item will appear in our PANIQuiz! New!: No reader quips yet -- be the first! Got a PaniQuip? Your Quip (limit 140 characters, no links, just wit): First name: The text shown in the Web image to the right: We reserve the right to reuse, remove, or refuse any entry.

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