Benefits of biocrude touted at meeting
By Kari Griffin
Baytown Sun
Published April 11, 2008 - Updated 5 minutes ago
The Central American Parliament president’s second trip to Baytown Green Energy Consortium was truly an international affair.
Parlacen President Julio González Gamarra so liked what he saw happening at the Baytown business, that he’s invited Sustainable Energy Corp CEO John Rivera to a general assembly of the Parlacen, (which represents countries in South and Central America and the Caribbean) later this month to explain to all present just what the John Rivera Process is.
“This is where it all began,” Rivera said to the crowd gathered at his fully operating refinery – where members of the international press and visitors including local officials like Chambers County Constable Ben “Butch” Bean and Chambers County Commissioner Bill Wallace watched as Rivera turned soybean and palm waste into crude oil.
The site, (located across from Pinehurst on Highway 146), had its first public demonstration in February. But the group of folks interested in seeing substances with a carbon chain become heavy or light crude oil, synthetic gas and 737 fertilizer in just over 8 minutes has since doubled, (if not tripled), in size.
Rivera pointed out that the refinery is making 100 percent biogasoline, (BG-100), from pyrolysis biocrude oil not only has zero waste byproduct, (what’s left after the crude oil is made is turned into fertilizer), and zero emissions – it’s even without noise pollution.
“We’re in a fully operating refinery and we’re speaking at a normal tone,” Rivera said to his audience.
The facility, (a joint-venture with U.S. Sustainable Energy), is capable of producing between 6,700 and 24,000 gallons of petroleum product, in addition to 69 other non-hazardous materials, each day in its four-reactor unit.
And soon, Rivera hopes, similar reactors will be placed in underdeveloped countries across the world with the agriculture to partner-up with the company and start producing crude oil.
González Gamarra said he for one believes in what he sees happening at the Baytown’s green industrial complex.
“I support this product that John Rivera has invented,” González Gamarra said. “It’s something muy bien.”
With Rivera’s help, the Parlecen President hopes to spark the interest of agriculturalists and international banks. But he would not confirm plans to contribute $4 billion, (as he said in February). But while he would commit to a dollar amount, González Gamarra did say the contribution to help move the project along would be significant.
“This could be a solution, not only for this country, but for the world,” he said.
Wallace agrees that having a green company in an area populated with industry is an advantage,
“The best thing for the Chambers County area is it’s a green industry,” Wallace said of Rivera’s refinery. “That’s something we are definitely in need of.”
The Chambers County Commissioner described Rivera’s process, (which he has seen several times), as “off the page.”
Until visiting the site, Wallace had only heard of creating crude oil from soybeans and other substances.
“I actually stuck my finger in some of the first oil that was developed,” Wallace said. “I guess seeing is believing.”
And in case anyone had doubts that the fuel created in the Baytown Green Energy Consortium worked, Rivera offered them proof in the form of a Honda 300 4X4 purchased from Eastside Honda.
The motor vehicle was put to the test. Once it was filled with BG-100, a volunteer drove it around the refinery’s parking lot.
“It has never seen gasoline,” Rivera said.
Rivera, who coined the term, vetroleum, said the name of the product says it all. Derived from the Latin words for green and oil, vetroleum represents the future, Rivera said. And it’s coming from the reactors, or “time machines,” (as Rivera called them), in Baytown.
“We’re here and we’re going to be showing everything that we do,” Rivera.
For more information about the Baytown Green Energy Consortium and the Rivera Process, visit the company’s website at www.biocrude.us.
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