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The airline's next step is to run a test flight using fuel from jatropha oil in the latter half of this year (see also our previous post on jatropha for biofuels).

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The Indian National Mission on Biodiesel may have been quietly shelved recently, but that doesn't mean that state governments aren't continuing forward with their plans to cultivate Jatropha for biodiesel.

With this in mind, climate change could be just another unique opportunity for weeds and other hardy plants to fulfill other roles: as potential biofuel candidates (kudzu, swtichgrass and jatropha for example), as a source of natural materials for furniture, or even as food — because weeds are evolving, just as we are.

«In an early program that intended to lay the groundwork for REDD + in Chiapas,» she writes, «subsistence activities were constrained while production of African oil palm and jatropha for biofuels received subsides from the state.»

The Yucatan Peninsula, in addition to being a corn producing region in Mexico, also contains abandoned sisal plantations, where the growing of Jatropha for biodiesel production would not displace food.

Not exact matches

The oil - rich jatropha plant and other so - called «energy crops» being grown on the island may also pass through the industrial plant, as long as growers are willing to part with it for free (though that may prove unlikely).

For plant oil — based biofuels, such as jatropha, the main obstacle is the lack of research and practice in large - scale commercial cultivation, as well as mechanized harvesting.

Jatropha, for example, largely grown in East Africa and India to date, has proved to require more water than initially anticipated, a problem in areas where fresh water is a scarce resource.

In addition to establishing plantations, jatropha boosters are starting to identify, select and propagate the best varieties for biodiesel production.

Jongschaap is spearheading one of the research projects looking for different types of jatropha with the goal of matching plants to growing conditions and maximizing oil yields.

Biodiesel can not compete with current petroleum prices, which are relatively low, so jatropha would be better suited for local projects that improve rural livelihoods and basic energy services.

Henning agrees that it is smart for jatropha growers to start small.

Synthetic Genomics Inc.and Asiatic Centre for Genome Technology (ACGT), today announced completion of a first draft, 10X assembly of the jatropha genome....

Centre for Jatropha Promotion & Biodiesel (CJP) is the Global authority for scientific commercialization of Jatropha & other non-food biofuel crops and designs and implements the growing of non-food biofuel crops worldwide in a structured Agri - Supply chain, Value additions and research activities thereon & provides technology and services from «Soil to Oil» for the breeding, development, planting and harvesting of next - generation commercial biofuel crops CJP has been engaged in promoting sustainable farming for biodiesel production since last one decade and its research findings and on - hand field experiences in respect of various technical, agronomical / silvicultural aspects of plantations of Jatropha have resulted in significant improvements in knowledge and technical background related to Productivity, profitability and sustainability of commercial production of Jatropha oil crop.

This new strain would allow for highly sustainable Jatropha production and furnish high quality, low cost biodiesel to the fuel marketplaces of the Western Hemisphere.

Even defenders of jatropha, a hardy shrub once considered a promising candidate for biofuels, are touting the possibility of genetic engineering to make it a viable feedstock for fuel.

Jatropha curcas, for instance, is a plant that grows well on marginal lands and can also be used to restore degraded lands, suggesting that Jatropha production, if carefully managed, may be expanded without directly competing with natural forests or high - value agriculture lands used for food production.

On a global scale, the biofuels frenzy is diverting millions of acres of farmland from food crops, converting millions of acres of rainforest and other wildlife habitat into farmland, and employing billions of gallons of water, to produce corn, jatropha, palm oil and other crops for use in producing politically correct biodiesel and other biofuels.

Patrick Barta, «Jatropha Plant Gains Steam in Global Race for Biofuels,» Wall Street Journal, 24 August 2007; «Shell Boosts Stake in Iogen Cellulosic Ethanol,» Reuters, 15 July 2008; FAO, State of Food and Agriculture 2008 (Rome: 2008), p. 47.

However Verno confirmed something which anyone even casually following aviation biofuels knows, that jatropha, camelina, algae and salicornia are being investigated for future flying use.

Jatropha is known to be toxic to animals and humans, which has raised some questions about the safety of jatropha oil and handling conditions for Jatropha is known to be toxic to animals and humans, which has raised some questions about the safety of jatropha oil and handling conditions for jatropha oil and handling conditions for farmers.

Read the entire original article, Energy India: Biofuelling Confusion, for more on Jatropha, as well as other crops which are may be better alternatives in India.

40 % of Uttar Pradesh Wastelands Alloted for Jatropha The Business Standard reports that the government of Uttar Pradesh is planning to cultivate Jatropha on 40 % of the total amount of wasteland in the state over the next five years.

Though plenty of reports have been done in the past two years indicating that while jatropha curcas does grow in marginal conditions, to produce consistent crops yields at levels suitable for

Jatropha Basics For those not up on Jatropha, it is a small tree or shrub, the leaves and seeds of which are toxic on ingestion to both animals and people, which produces seeds with a high oil content and a high yield per hectare.

via:: Business Week Sustainable Biofuels Have Your Say: Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels Requests Comment on Sustainability Criteria Sustainable Biofuels Alliance Sets Out Draft Principles for Sustainability Practices Africa Biofuels Galten's Squeezing Biofuel from the Jatropha Seed Biofuel Crop Expansion Will Destroy Important Kenyan Coastal Wetland

An Additional 1.6 Million Hectares for Biodiesel: Jatropha Cultivation to be Expanded in Indian State of Uttar Pradesh

via:: The Economic Times and:: Biofuels Digest India, Biodiesel Jatropha Production Expanded in India, Hindustan Petroleum to Plant 15,000 Hectares Renewable Energy, Solar Power, Key to India's New Climate Plan Indian State Shoots for Biodiesel Self - Sufficiency

The program would have devoted 4 million hectares of land for cultivation of crops such as Jatropha, for the production of biodiesel, as well as investing $ 322 million.

India is one of the world's leading cultivators of jatropha as a feedstock for biodiesel, with over one million hectares planted to date.

Though the UK - based firm has succeeded in delivery small commercial quantities of Jatropha oil, the vast majority of its lofty goals have gone unmet: Its entire UK refinery operation was forced to close; its operations in Africa and India appear to be producing far lower yields than hoped for; and then there is its crisis of management, which saw its former CEO Elliot Mannis and chairman Lord Oxburgh ousted, in what Biofuels Digest has called a boardroom coup.

Even a cursory review of the literature on jatropha supports these results, and that literature has been out for some time now.

Subsidies Called for by Researchers At a recent Jatropha conference, Indonesian researchers said that a lack of stable market is hampering expansion of Indonesia's Jatropha industry, and have called for government to set a market price for the product.

In case this post's opening remark is lost on you: Burma (Myanmar) Government & Politics Jatropha, Biodiesel Jatropha Biodiesel One Step Closer to Viability: D1 Oils to Deliver First Shipments of Raw Oil Jatropha Production Expanded in India, Hindustan Petroleum to Plant 15,000 Hectares An Additional 1.6 Million Hectares for Biodiesel: Jatropha Cultivation Expanded in Uttar Pradesh

Biofuels Digest Thinks So Algae, Jatropha Tapped for Continental Airlines» First Biofuel Test Flight Is India's Jatropha Biodiesel Push a Good Thing?

Image from Airplane-Pictures.net Date Set for Jatropha - Powered Test Flight The announcement that Air New Zealand had set an ambitious sustainable biofuels goal for 2013 created a lot of buzz back in September.

The Indonesian government has so far ruled out subsidies for Jatropha oil, which currently sells for US$ 0.5 per liter of raw oil.

According to the company's press release, the fuel to be used is being vetted under strict sustainability criteria: «Air New Zealand's criteria for sourcing the jatropha oil was the land was neither forest land nor virgin grassland within the previous two decades.

(True enough for algae, less so for jatropha.)

In comparison, 108,100 km2 would be needed for soybean, 73,000 km2 for rapeseed / sunflower, and 31,700 km2 for Jatropha curcas.»