How hard would it be to turn soybeans into a biofuel?

Question

My cousin's farm grows 100 acres of soybeans annually I would just like to know what would go in to turning it into bio-fuels. Any help would be great I can't find anything on it.

Answer 1

The problem is that the price of the soy beans has gone up over 200% in the past year and is pricing itself out of  reach for BioFuel makers, that is what has happened in Washington State anyhow.

Answer 2

Growing algae to get algaeoil, from which biodiesel is made will be the way the USA moves forward for it's future diesel motor fuel needs. Algae grows more biomass faster than any other plant species. Because it is a single-celled plant, all it needs besides water & sunlight are a few nutrient salts to double their mass multiple times per day. That doesn't sound like much. Until you realize that if you start with just one, and double it twenty one times, your result is over a million. That could be pounds, or kilos, or barrels of fuel, the units of measurement are irrelevant. They are determined by the scale the production is built on. It pays to think BIG.

Using food crops or croplands to produce transportation energy isn't just unwise, it's flat feeble-minded. Farming crops for transportation will only speed up the rate at which the rain forests are being decimated in South America, cause farmers to not allow their fields to rest for one season out of how many for short term gain, the chance that there would be a "transportation induced famine" somewhere on Earth goes to 100%. There is no excuse for using food  for transportation when anyone is hungry anywhere.

Answer 3

Easy.  Extract the oil.  But it would be expensive biofuel.