Comments on: Renewable energy: markets recover and jatropha goes north http://www.energyrefuge.com/blog/renewable-energy-markets-recover-jatropha-new-generation-biofuels/ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:29:51 -0600 hourly 1 By: Mali: Jatropha Oil Lights Up Villages « SocioLingo Africa http://www.energyrefuge.com/blog/renewable-energy-markets-recover-jatropha-new-generation-biofuels/comment-page-1/#comment-3261 Mali: Jatropha Oil Lights Up Villages « SocioLingo Africa Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:16:17 +0000 http://www.energyrefuge.com/blog/?p=1007#comment-3261 [...] Renewable energy: markets recover and jatropha goes north (energyrefuge.com) [...] [...] Renewable energy: markets recover and jatropha goes north (energyrefuge.com) [...]

]]> By: Alternative Profits http://www.energyrefuge.com/blog/renewable-energy-markets-recover-jatropha-new-generation-biofuels/comment-page-1/#comment-3179 Alternative Profits Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:50:29 +0000 http://www.energyrefuge.com/blog/?p=1007#comment-3179 This is some good news that the jatropha world will welcome. Of late, as it was for most biofuels, jatropha has been receiving a lot of bad press. Some of the negative news were indeed true, and mostly had to do with exaggerated claims on oil yields and wildly optimistic scenarios that included a plant that required no water, no fertilizer and no maintenance (if they had also said no oil, they would have been more truthful!). I think it is early days for jatropha. The yields quoted in the article 200-300 gal per acre is possible (but only after the 4th year or so). This yield may not be great-shakes, but it is a start. Hopefully, other varieties / hybrids can produce higher yield. On jatropha cultivation in colder climes, I am not sure if countries such as the USA are gonna embrace jatropha in the next decade, not at least in a big way. To a very large extent, jatropha cultivation is going to predominate in Africa and Asia This is some good news that the jatropha world will welcome. Of late, as it was for most biofuels, jatropha has been receiving a lot of bad press. Some of the negative news were indeed true, and mostly had to do with exaggerated claims on oil yields and wildly optimistic scenarios that included a plant that required no water, no fertilizer and no maintenance (if they had also said no oil, they would have been more truthful!).

I think it is early days for jatropha. The yields quoted in the article 200-300 gal per acre is possible (but only after the 4th year or so). This yield may not be great-shakes, but it is a start. Hopefully, other varieties / hybrids can produce higher yield.

On jatropha cultivation in colder climes, I am not sure if countries such as the USA are gonna embrace jatropha in the next decade, not at least in a big way. To a very large extent, jatropha cultivation is going to predominate in Africa and Asia

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