Re:<If he were an engineer, he would know that both BTU's and kwh's are units of energy. They do not "convert" with any amount of efficiency. It is as simple as english versus metric (read inches vs. centimeters).>
The "BTUs convert to KWh depending..." was not my statement. King Oil has the right idea and I didn't want to get in a war of semantics and lose the overall concept. He has the right idea about efficiency.
Re:<In addition, HEAT is a form of energy. If heat is added to the Rivera Process during the vacuum phase, then it is one of the energy inputs (along with soy beans). The outputs (light/heavy gas, invisible gas, etc), can most definitely have more BTU's than the original soybeans given this additional heat.>
Just because they add heat during the process does not mean that gets added to the chemical energy stored in the fuel. Remember they also cool and condense (take heat out of) the products. If you want to optimistically assume that all the heat energy does somehow get converted to stored chemical energy, use Mr. Rivera's interview where he says that 440 kW of heat energy is used for 4,400 kW of energy from soybeans. You can add that 10% and see that the math still doesn't work out for profitably producing fuel for continuous electrical power production.
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