Jatropha Curcas Biodiesel
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 25th, 2010
Jatropha’s oil is useful as biodiesel or jet fuel, and the plant has an overall better carbon profile than corn or soybeans, partly due to its long life. The oil is also easily converted into fuel, unlike algae. …
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 22nd, 2010
JMax 100 is the first elite cultivar developed through the company’s JMax Jatropha Optimization Platform. The platform provides growers and plantation developers with access to high yielding Jatropha and the sequenced genome and …
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 18th, 2010
I have almost finished my piece “Zebra Longwing and Jatropha ”.
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2010
” Jatropha was the subject of an explosion of fabulous propaganda. But this was an untried crop at commercial levels and the many thousands of marginal farmers who have gone into production have been experimented on with disastrous …
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2010
Meredith Alexander, head of trade at Actionaid and co-author of its “Meals per Gallon” report, said: ” Jatropha is a real gold-rush crop, and the same amount of common sense that applies in a gold rush has been applied to the jatropha …
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2010
Oil giant BP, which planned to spend almost £32m on a joint venture to set up jatropha plantations, has now pulled out and the charity ActionAid today warns that jatropha needs to be cultivated on prime food-growing land to produce …
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2010
I have almost finished my piece “Zebra Longwing and Jatropha ”. This is the piece I am doing for the Organic in the City event for Texas Discovery Gardens. I was able to get pictures of the Zebra Longwing and the Jatropha plant on one of …
Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel on Feb 12th, 2010
The risk of biofuel crops becoming invasive and outcompeting native species is increasing as more advanced crops are planted. This can be managed to reduce the impact on local livelihoods and the environment, according to a new report by IUCN.
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 11th, 2010
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Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 7th, 2010
Toyota Tsusho Corporation, the parent company of Toyota Motor Corporation, is extending its holdings beyond automobiles to the stuff that fuels them by.