Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'jatropha'
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...
More on Jatropha
I've just stumbled on this website about Jatropha. It talks about the way that using Jatropha as hedging material, it is possible to increase cultivatable land. I am not sure if that works if water is scarce......
Jatropha Sustainable Biofuels Alliance
I've just come across the Jatropha Sustainable Biofuels Alliance, it is based in Switzerland and aims to be a group that will lobby for Jatropha to be seen as a good second generation biofuel that does not compete with food...
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?...
Air New Zealand in biofuel test flight
Air New Zealand successfully flew a plane for around two hours with one of its engines modified to run on a mixture of jatropha-derived biofuel and Jet A, over the Christmas break. I've written about it before, and this piece...
The good, the bad, the ugly 2008/2009
The best piece of work on Biofuels 2008? For me that was the The Gallagher Review of the indirect effects of biofuels production. If you're a serious player in this market, you should read that report. Worst technology to...
Life on Myanmar's biofuels plantation
Tidied upLife on a Myanmar biofuels plantation is explored and found to be pretty rosy in this article from Singapore's Straights Times. Well it would be, its the Straights Times and its a Singaporean investment. Didn't look around at any...
Air New Zeland to fly bifouel
This release came in overnight from my colleagues in the US. It takes us further with the Air New Zealand/Rolls Royce biofuels trials. It is notable because it will be using Jatropha derived biofuel. The fuel will be mixed 50:50...
African Jatropha plantations.
The author of this article in All Africa.com is pretty much anti anything to do with big oil and biofuels from food crops. But if you can make it half way through page two there's a run down on who's...
Rolls Royce trials Jatropha biofuel in Derby
Rolls Royce is trialling Jatropha biofuel at its test beds in Derby, in the Midlands of England, the engine maker is working with Air New Zealand which is planning to fly a Boeing from Aukland using the fuel in one...
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...
Air New Zealand to try Jatropha based biofuel by end 2008
Air New Zealand to try Jatropha based biofuel by end 2008 the firm is working with Rolls Royce which has been looking at Jatropha-based fuels since 2005. ...
1000 entries and what have we learned?
Put out the flags. I've reached the 1000 post mark. I started this in October 2006 with an open if sceptical mind. Its been a lot of fun so far. I've met a whole bunch of people who have commented...
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...
Are biofuels causing food price rises? Gallagher's answer
The Gallagher Review into biofuels has a view on how the diversion of food into biofuel crops affects prices but its not clear. Partly that's because it's economics (if predicting the weather is hard, why do economists try to produce simple...
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....
Will biofuels marginalise women?
Will biofuels marginalise women in the developing world? The FAO thinks that it might. In a rather negative report it concludes that biofuels will be farmed on marginal land, which is currently used by women to farm subsistence crops, it...
D1 Oils may seek more funding
D1 Oils may seek more funding from financial institutions, according to a report in the Telegraph. The firm has been hit by subsidised US Biofuel finding its way into the European market But for me the interesting parts in the...
D1 oils responds to the Monbiot in the today's Guardian
D1 Oils' chairman (Ron) Lord Oxburgh has responded to the Guardian Newspaper's columnist George Monbiot's piece on 12 February about biofuels today , you can see the full text of the exchange on in the comments on this post D1...
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....
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