Sentences with phrase «as jatropha»

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.

Non-food plant sources, such as jatropha and camelina, are promising, but difficult to produce in large quantities and can end up displacing food crops or lead to deforestation if the price of fuel rises high enough.

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.

Not exact matches

Parker, convicted in December of assaulting a Post photographer, last week proposed a green «Thruway to Fuelway» initiative under which bio-fuel crops such as «palm oil, jatropha and mahua» would be grown along the now - snow - lined Thruway's median strips.

Compared to two competing plant sources, soybeans and jatropha, lipidcane would produce about 15 and 13 times as much jet fuel per unit of land, respectively.

In the meantime, efforts to grow Jatropha — already planted in quantity in Africa and India — may be scaled up, whereas other feedstocks that can be rotated with wheat, such as Camelina — a relative of canola — will play a role.

As the company has demonstrated elsewhere in the world, it is possible to make jet fuel from plant oils — whether they come from jatropha seeds, the flowering weed camelina or any other oil - producing plant.

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).

In order to characterize the biological properties of soil treated with biochar, the team incorporated torrefied plant residual biomass from the biodiesel crop Jatropha curcas into aridisol, a type of soil found in arid regions such as Botswana, and compared several soil properties with samples that had not been treated.

Henning has found Brazilian jatropha seeds that contain 40 percent oil — about the same as canola and more than twice the 18 percent contained in soybeans.

Jet fuels derived from algae, camelina and jatropha — plants that pack an energy punch, are not eaten as food and do not displace food crops — could be approved and replacing petroleum fuels in commercial flights as early as next year, a Boeing executive said yesterday.

Within this region, it inhabits scrubland habitats below 1,800 m (5,900 ft) dominated by plants such as cholla, Jatropha, and organ - pipe cactus, and in agricultural land.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon recently announced a $ 85 million pilot project to produce biodiesel from non-food crops like jatropha and castor oil plant so as not to avert food crops from the mouths of its hungry populace, EcoAméricas reports.

Jatropha curcas is, however, classified as invasive in some countries, including Australia.

Some of these raw materials, such as palm oil, soy and jatropha, are linked with devastating environmental and social impacts.

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.

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.

Apart from singling out Mission New Energy and GEM Biofuels as doing Jatropha right, Biofuels Digest is catalogues a series of failures, mis - starts and unmet promises: China and Myanmar Plans Languish Though a bit over a year ago China announced that it would be putting 13 million hectares of land under Jatropha cultivation, to date «a handful» of these plantations actually exist.

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

D1's position as a leading developer in jatropha plant science differentiates us significantly in a market that increasingly requires biofuels that are not only competitive but also sustainable.