Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'India'
CORRECTED: Two Jatropha projects in India
CORRECTEDLinks sorted out.Two Jatropha to biofuels projects have got under way in India in the past two days. According to the SindhToday 100 million Jatropha saplings have been planted in Chhattisgarth. Meanwhile Sulekha.com has Bharat Petroleum to invest Rupee 21.31bn...
Emami Biotech in commercial jatropha biofuel production
Emami Biotech is using Jatropha in commercial jatropha biofuel production according to the Bioenergy site. If this is the case, and the report is a little garbled, then could it be the first commercial application of that technology?...
India's biofuel market: a report
There's a new report on the outlook for India's biofuels market. The key take-away for me is that despite a growing ethanol industry, India is going to have an ethanol deficit until at least 2017 as demand outstrips supply by...
Jatropha plantations for Florida--Biofuels Digest
A report in Biofuels Digest says that My Dream Fuels is aiming to plant around 900 000 jatropha trees in Florida. The firm says that its trees will mature in 8 months and significantly out perform wild Jatropha strains. My...
Syngenta unveils tropical sugar beet in India
Syngenta has unveiled a new tropical sugar beet that produces around as much sugar as cane, the company says. The crop matures in five months and uses less water than cane. This could be useful for ethanol production in the...
Indian Sugar cane to ethanol: a study
Thanks to Draka for this information on the state of ethanol production in India from Current Science. As Draka says, in a comment below, sugar cane takes a lot of water to grow....
How India could join the biofuel explosion
There's an interesting article about how India's policies are stopping India create biofuel on the Hindu business line. They're subsidising the wrong thing, apparently. I think. ...
Mixed messages as India drops state funding for biodiesel
According to a report in India's Economic Times, on 4 August, the Indian Government has pulled out of a nationwide biodiesel plan, because ministers were worried that large corporations would buy large areas of the country for biofuel production. Companies...
India's state-subsidised biofuel project close to launch
India's state-subsidised biofuel project close to launch, according to the Indian Financial Express Newspaper on Monday. One of the high points will be a trial plantation of 4m acres of Jatropha, according to the report. The other is that the...
Jatropha good bad or indifferent
Its worth taking a few minutes to look at the blogosphere's view of Jatropha: Here are three. It is very bad, according to By Sujeet Kumar writing in India eNews and may be harmful to kids, animals, plants and soils....
Indian Biotech jobs
I've been twittering with a chap called Biotechnologist for a couple of months now and I've just had a look at his website: biotechnologist2020. It looks like a starting point if we you're looking for a biotechnology job in India....
More on Pongamia
I was sent a link to Roshini Greener Biofuel, an Indian company which specialises in plantations of non-edible oils.The firm sees considerable scope for these plantations, particulalrly Pongamia in arid parts of the world....
An outline of BP's biofuel strategy
There's an outline of BP's biofuel strategy from Rob New, head of the business at the firm, in a report from Rueters carried by Yahoo India....
Five things I didn't know about Pongamia before today
I only heard about the possibilities of using a bush called Pongamia as biofuel crop today when I came across the International Water Management Institute's (IWMI) report on water use and biofuels. The IWMI says it might be a suitable...
Water a problem for biofuels in china and india
Water shortages could follow Chinese and Indian plans to use sugarcane to make biofuels, according to a report from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) , carried on Planet Ark this morning. The report, Biofuels and implications for agricultural water...
Nevermind molasses, ferment sugar cane-- Indian government
According to Planet Ark, yesterday India's cabinet started allowing sugar companies to manufacture ethanol directly from sugarcane juice to aid mills struggling with surplus stocks. Until now, ethanol was produced entirely from the sugarcane byproduct, molasses. Looks like they're solving...
Indian government Energy advisor warns on biofuels
An Indian government energy advisor has warned that biofuels could pose problems for his country and would not be the best way to use land or water resources. Surya P Sethi was quoted by Ashok Sharma in the Financial Express,...
Indonesia's Medco to invest in cassava-based Ethanol
Indonesia's Medco to invest in cassava-based Ethanol in at least one of three factories it is expecting to build in the country for between $135-144m, according to the Investor daily, quoted by Planet Ark. Medco plans to export the ethanol...
Water and biofuels
The threat to world water supplies posed by biofuels has come to the surface following a water conference in Copenhagen earlier this week. It is worth reading Adam Cox's feature on Planet Ark for an interesting analysis of some of...
Food, waste food and biofuels
Are biofuels going to be a drain on world food resources? Not necessarily was the message at the All Party Parliamentary Renewable Transport Fuels Group meeting held in London yesterday.One of the arguments put forward is that there is...
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