Re:<If you want to know what's special and truly remarkable about JR's fuel, it's that it contains essentially no water while "regular" pyrolysis contain beau coup. This is staggering and worth the price of admission.>
The feedstock undoubtedly makes a difference. Soybeans have a high oil content to start and are standardized to 13% moisture. Mr. Rivera doesn't make it clear whether his soybeans are even drier than that. Other feedstocks such as switchgrass will have more water and less oil than soybeans. Also, if I remember right, the powerpoint which JR had on his site a while back said that "biofuel and water" was one of the outputs. I don't know if he still has that anywhere. Actually, I just looked. His power point now only says "five gallons" of output but doesn't say what that output is.
It would be good to do a comparison with someone else trying to commercially pyrolyze soybeans but nobody else seems to be starting with soybeans and probably for very good reason--soybeans are too darn expensive to ever hope to make a profit using pyrolysis. Anyone doing the math will see there is no possible way they could make a profit from pyrolyzing soybeans short of violating the laws of physics.
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