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

Gruppo Jatropha Leo Dartelaan 20, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium ABSTRACT: Conceptual analysis of a village - based biofuel and energy production system....

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

Under the joint venture Myanmar Bio Energy Company, the Myanmar Ministry of Agriculture, the Japan Development Institute, and the Japan Bio Energy Development Cooperation will be expanding cultivation of Jatropha curcas, establishing a refining / trading center and conducting education and training.

Though The Guardian is calling it a biodiesel breakthrough, the announcement by D1 Oils that they are (finally) on track to deliver their first commercial quantity, 1000 tonnes, of raw jatropha oil by December of this year seems to be more a sigh of relief than anything else.

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.

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

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).

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.

Bachtiar Parmus, of PT Rajawali Nusantara Indonesia: «The government should issue regulations to help develop jatropha biofuel.

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

Continental says that it will be using «a special fuel blend including components derived from algae and jatropha plants — sustainable, second - generation fuel sources that don't impact food crops or water resources, and don't contribute to deforestation».

via: The National, Biofuels Digest Biofuelsâ $ ¨ Should Jatropha Really Be Called the «Blunder Crop»?

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

While it is often claimed and is essentially true that Jatropha can grow in places where food crops can not, an increasing body of research shows that to get predictably high crop yields, Jatropha requires adequate soil nutrition and adequate water.

D1 Oils, the UK - based biodiesel firm which is banking on Jatropha, closed its two UK refineries in April and laid off all staff there.

To help this, the government aims to have 1.5 million hectares of Jatropha under cultivation by that time.

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.

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.

D1's work on jatropha cultivation continues, with some 260,000 hectares (640,000 acres) planted in Zambia and India.

More on TreeHugger about Aviation and Biofuels Virgin Experimenting with Biofuel for Jets Biodiesel for Aircraft Q&A; Air New Zealand Biofuelling Through the High Skies More on Jatropha for Biofuels Jatropha for Biodiesel in Brazil Investment Group Plants 5000 Acres of Jatropha in Mexico More on Airlines and High Oil Prices Landing Jumbos in Idle to Save Fuel British Airway's Profits Squeezed by Eurostar and High Oil Prices Are Eco-Loonies Damaging Ryanair's Sales After All?

Though it's only occasionally on the public biofuel radar in the United States, what with corn ethanol and Brazilian sugar cane hogging the headlines, in the subtropical and tropical regions where the plant thrives, Jatropha has received much more attention.

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

There's more: The biofuel in question will be blended 50/50 with regular jet fuel, and will be produced from Jatropha, an inedible plant that can be grown on soils where food plants can not thrive (you can read more on TreeHugger about jatropha biofuels).

Biofuels Digest is running a good state - of - the - blunder overview of what's going wrong with Jatropha around the world.

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.

Though its international commercial viability has been far from proven, jatropha - based biofuels have been consistently growing.

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

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.

Though The Guardian is calling it a biodiesel breakthrough, the announcement by D1 Oils that they are (finally) on track to deliver their first commercial quantity, 1000 tonnes, of raw jatropha oil by December of this year seems to

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.

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.

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

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

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

Environmental and social advocacy organization Navdanya has stated concerns that expanding Jatropha cultivation on wastelands will simply be a land grab by corporations, and that so - called wastelands actually provide valuable ecosystem services, and I tend to take such concerns seriously.

More examples from India, Haiti and elsewhere: The Blunder Crop photos: D1 Oils Biodiesel, Jatropha Is India's Jatropha Biodiesel Push a Good Thing?

Village panchayats (essentially, local assemblies), aided by biodiesel refiners, provide farmers with technical assistance with Jatropha cultivation.

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.

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

Both parcels of land will be used to cultivate Jatropha curcas, the seeds of which will be refined into biodiesel.

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 Jatropha - based biodiesel usage continues to expand in India, there are many issues surrounding it which aren't all good: Despite claims of growing on marginal lands, good yields require watering; and, those «marginal

The consequence of this has been large scale ventures into jatropha plantations in at least ten states of India, with a confusing array of mixed reports from the field.

Here are some excerpts: Jatropha Toxicity & Cattle, Marginalization of Communities, More

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.

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.

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 farmers.

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.

In Rajasthan's Udaipur district farmers became hostile to jatropha after seeing their cattle die from eating the toxic leaves of the plant.