Jatropha Curcas Biodiesel
Posted in Uncategorized, mozambique on Mar 1st, 2010
Editor’s note: ESV announced in late November 2009 that it had sold its jatropha venture in Mozambique to an Italian partnership for $4 million—contingent on payment of all back wages and taxes by ESV. …
Posted in Uncategorized, mozambique on Feb 28th, 2010
Editor’s note: ESV announced in late November 2009 that it had sold its jatropha venture in Mozambique to an Italian partnership for $4 million—contingent on payment of all back wages and taxes by ESV. …
Posted in Uncategorized, mozambique on Feb 27th, 2010
Jatropha is not currently available on a commercial scale;; Despite claims it can grow on marginal land and therefore will benefit poor countries such as Mozambique and Madagascar, the yield is so small that people grow it on prime …
Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel, mozambique on Feb 22nd, 2010
A Bad Zurzach (Argovie), la société Green Biofuel SA vient d’obtenir l’autorisation de construire une usine d’agrodiesel qui transformera sur place des noix de jatropha originaires du Mozambique . SWISSAID exprime sa plus vive …
Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel, india, mozambique on Feb 21st, 2010
Meanwhile, millions of jatropha trees are being grown instead of food on farms from Ghana and Guatemala to Mozambique and India. EU companies have reportedly leased 5 million hectares of land for biofuel production, much of it in Africa …
Posted in Uncategorized, india, mozambique on Jan 29th, 2010
… no working method of tissue culture for Jatropha is known. To the knowledge of the author, 2 laboratories are working on multiplication of Jatropha : a) at Jains in Jalgaon, India, and b) at the University of Mozambique in Maputo.
Posted in Uncategorized, mozambique on Jan 27th, 2010
Mozambique’s Petromoc to raise $408 million for jatropha biodiesel project; The Mozambique oil producer Petromoc is raising $408 million for a new project using 45000 hectares of jatropha to produce 59 million gallons of biodiesel. …
Posted in Uncategorized, mozambique on Jan 8th, 2010
While further independent research will give more detail, this investigation seriously challenges Jatropha as providing for sustainable fuel and development in Mozambique . Given the trend in evidence emerging internationally …
Posted in Uncategorized, mozambique on Dec 15th, 2009
denversolarguy: Valero Bets on Biodiesel from Jatropha (source: Topix.net): A worker in Mozambique holding jatropha seeds. Valero E… http://bit.ly/6IkmVd
Posted in Uncategorized, mozambique on Dec 12th, 2009
Carlos Litulo/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images A worker in Mozambique holding jatropha seeds. Valero Energy entered into a deal to gain access to jatropha -based biodiesel. Valero Energy, the largest American refiner, …