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re: Jatropha curcas: poison shrub or environmental savior?

trophajawimar — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:30:17 GMT

Be very, very careful.

Here in Indonesia, we saw the failure of jatropha curcass to make good their promises (made by their proponent) in 2006. The national jatropha program now is as good as dead, in just 3 years.

The reasons?

Jatropha is not fully understood scientifically. Thus, it is now clear that it is not economically viable (at least up to now) to grow and process it into biodiesel.

As long as your yield is under 10 tonnes/ha/annum, under current fuel prices, it is not economically viable. And nobody has been able to grow jatropha, in infertile soil, and produce at much as 5 tonnes/ha/annum. Not to mention 10 tonnes/ha/annum.

Jatropha oil must be treated as higher priced chemical feedstock, not "just" as cheaper priced biodiesel. Otherwise, it is not feasible economically to grow this plant.

Just look at Indonesia's failure on jatropha curcass national program.

re: Jatropha curcas: poison shrub or environmental savior?

rajat9691 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:08:21 GMT

Algae as quoted by some PBR manufacturers (photo bio reacter) not require water in large quantity and water after filtering out algae is recycled into PBR. Only we have to add make up water for 5% evaporation losses and nothing else.

re: Jatropha curcas: poison shrub or environmental savior?

one4gaia — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:48:36 GMT

Its not surprising that some of the early diesel motors came from India, Knowing the history, one sees that exeerience's choice for plant useage, Is JatrophaCurcas,known as the Physic Nut and producing "Castor Oil" in some circles of nomenclature.High yielding,quality fuel,non food for arid lands.I've been touting this for years.Wish I would have the acres. Algae if it works, as it seems to in Iceland,maye another possibility,but water intensive. Its probably best grown where no one knows what good it is other than a paycheck, then take it to the US fuel market again, Vege fuel for diesel "Gas Turbine engines"(Gas from Gaseous not gasoline) is old knowledge for the informed. Its all about things like flashpoint,cold tolerance, Lubricity etc.

re: Jatropha curcas: poison shrub or environmental savior?

one4gaia — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:47:16 GMT

re: Jatropha curcas: poison shrub or environmental savior?

S.A.Alagarsamy — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:02:02 GMT

sir

I have attended International congress on Jatropha in Singapore during Dec 16 17 2008. i have learned many lessons. but Jatropha is a good crop only if you treat this plant well and it is my practical problem of picking up fruits and face snake threats and other allergy problems.

I have heard from A Scientist that Jatropha oil and all other related things should be handled out very safely by wearing gloves.

Jatropha is a meritorious plant provided we focus on it properly. I have my hands on Experience of planting 200 acres in my Native place.

Often we forget to funding properly..

so Jatropha will get success and oneday this Jatropha oil wll be tried by all airlines successfully.

S.A.Alagarsamy

www.mgrbiodiesel.com

cHennai

9884016142

re: What is biodiesel?

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re: Royal Caribbean Cruises contracts for 5 years of biodiesel

bobabbey — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:06:42 GMT

I wiould like to setup a processor on a lower deck in one of thier ships. I could convert the veg oil used on board for fuel, saving all that transportation cost!

Bob

re: Chicken-wing conspiracy against biofuels

Batchelder Biodiesel Refineries — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:29:25 GMT

Batchelder Biodiesel Refineries (BBR) was formed 2 years ago when the demand for alternative fuels started to boom. BBR has perfected their refining process to include yellow and brown grease taken from the surrounding communities. BBR has developed a state of the art process to convert this waste grease into 100% ASTM certified biofuel as well as bioheat. Both processes meet and exceed ASTM D6751 standards. Because BBR uses waste grease to create their product there is no food vs. fuel controversy, as there is with using non-waste products such as Ethanol from corn. By utilizing a waste stream BBR is diverting a product that would ultimately be disposed of in a land fill. With fewer and fewer landfills excepting grease for disposal and the amount of waste continuing to grow, the question we should be asking ourselves is, what will we do with it all?

BBR will be providing the ability to convert this waste to a usable product, it will convert our communities waste into a clean form of energy, which results in a cleaner environment.

BBR’s knowledge base comes from over 60 years of manufacturing experience while maintaining a quality of work, which compares to none. BBR is also currently in the process of working with Keene State College and the City of Keene in a collaboration known as The Monadnock Biodiesel Collaborative (MBC) to bring green fuels to the Monadnock region.

To learn more about BBR and the MBC please visit their sites:

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re: Biodiesel Senate contacts

JSchroeder — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:23:39 GMT

Thanks for posting this list! It's important for consumers to let their elected officials know how much they support the use of renewable fuels.

While I realize that your blog is on biodiesel, i thought you might be interested in reading a newly created blog, ethanol Conversations (www.ethanolconversations.org), by EPIC's executive director Toni Nuernberg. Please stop by if you can and let us know what you think.

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re: What is biodiesel?

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This is a great site for research and other things. Be sure to tell your friends about biodiesel.

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