Miracle plant’s monstrous potential
Eureka Street – Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Much has been written about jatropha, the so-called miracle plant that the New York Times recently called the darling of the second-generation biofuels, …
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Aviation industry examines alternative fuels
International Herald Tribune – France
Among leading possible candidates as fuel feedstocks are algae; halophytes, a group of salt-tolerant plants; and Jatropha curcas, a bush native to Central …
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Biofuels take flight
Canoe.ca – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
They too are quick to point out they won’t be using food-based fuel, and will instead be the “world’s first flight test” using jatropha oil. …
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Jatropha training on the cards
Sunday News – Zimbabwe
He acknowledged that some farmers were trained under the National Oil Company of Zimbabwe (NOCZIM)’s jatropha programme but said that there is need for …
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Weekly Business Roundup (July 12, 2008)
The Irrawaddy News Magazine – Chiang Mai,Thailand
Altsean’s list includes 128 prisoners press-ganged into working on a jatropha cultivation project in Arakan; villagers in south Mon State made to work on …
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Comprehensive Jatropha Standards Mandatory in Optimum Long-term …
PR-USA.net (press release) – Varna,Bulgaria
This instrumental paper establishes guidelines for developing sustainability standards for both small and large scale global Jatropha ventures. …
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Project set up to make biofuel in Philippines: officials
AFP –
Jatropha is a plant whose seeds yield an oil that can be processed into diesel fuel. The plant grows even on land unsuitable for food crops and the …
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Food Versus Fuel in the Philippines
RedOrbit – Dallas,TX,USA
One crop, jatropha, has become particularly popular with governments in these countries: in Burma, the military rulers have ordered that farm land the size …
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STC starts growing jatropha in Indonesia, Surinam
EnergyCurrent – Houston,TX,USA
(STC) plans to acquire land in Indonesia and Suriname to grow jatropha for biodiesel feedstocks. STC started jatropha farming on 100 hectares (247 acres) of …
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STC aims big on Jatropha
The Statesman – Kolkata,India
BANGALORE, July 9: The State Trading Corporation proposes to acquire 50000 hectares of land in Surinam and Indonesia for growing the Jatropha plant for …
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Google Blogs Alert for: jatropha
What Will Power the Car of Tomorrow?
By karmaevil999
India is becoming a power house in jatropha bio-diesel fuel. Jatropha, a native of Central America and Mexico, doesn’t compete with food sources for soil or mouths. In addition, there are exciting new developments in algae based …
Karmaevil999’s Weblog – http://karmaevil999.wordpress.com
Global energy and global limits
By Jan T(Jan T)
If you’re growing guinea grass on abandoned cane fields, it might be more appropriate to employ that property to grow a local fuel source using jatropha, kukui or even oil palm. If global sugar prices are so low that a local sugar …
Raising Islands–Hawai’i science… – http://raisingislands.blogspot.com/
Pratt & Whitney Launches Biofuels Research Program for Small- and …
By Mike Millikin
These could include jatropha- and algae-derived biofuels, as well as biobutanol, to power aircraft engines. The objectives for the project include identifying and assessing appropriate biofuels, studying their effect on engine …
Green Car Congress – http://www.greencarcongress.com/
Aviation industry examines alternative fuels
Among leading possible candidates as fuel feedstocks are algae; halophytes, a group of salt-tolerant plants; and jatropha curcas, a bush native to Central America that can grow in poor soils.
Signs of the Future – http://www.innovationwatch.com/trendwatch/
