Jatropha Curcas Biodiesel
Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel on Aug 30th, 2010
Source: Reuters * Friends of Earth says biofuels displace African food crops * Biofuels seen as a key renewable energy source ABIDJAN, Aug 30 (Reuters) – Biofuel demand is driving a new “land grab” …
Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel on Aug 29th, 2010
Biofuels companies from the U.K. to Brazil and China are buying up large swaths of Africa, causing deforestation and diverting land from food to fuel production, the environmental group Friends of the Earth said.
Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel on Aug 24th, 2010
Carlsbad, CA—Life Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: LIFE), a provider of innovative life science solutions and SG Biofuels, Inc., a bioenergy crop company, announced A…
Posted in Uncategorized, biofuel on Aug 24th, 2010
There were once high hopes for Jatropha as a feedstock for biofuels. But as concerns over the environmental impact of the crop grew, those hopes faded into the background.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 24th, 2010
In part II of an interview, Chavannes Jean-Baptiste discusses the role that agriculture can play in Haiti in addressing both the environmental and food crises….
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 3rd, 2009
San Francisco biodiesel producer Sirona Fuels announced on April 1 that a batch of B100 jatropha -based biodiesel returned extraordinarily high test results. CytoCulture International Inc., the environmental biotechnology firm that …