Re: [Biofuel] Jatropha in India
Good reading http://www.biodieselsociety.org/news_international.asp - Original Message From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:53:57 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Jatropha in India Comment at the stoves list on jatropha by Dr. A. D. Karve, president of the Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) in Maharashtra, India (excerpts): Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:51:14 +0530 From: adkarve [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Stoves] The PROTOS Plant Oil Cooker I fail to understand, why the Government of India is making so much propaganda about Jatropha, which is a low yielding, wild plant. Nobody in India has ever obtained more than 300 to 400 kg of oil per ha from Jatropha. ... Any cultivated oilseed plant species, which has been subjected to plant breeding input, would yield more oil than Jatropha... Land is in short supply. If one has to use land to grow anything, one should not grow a low yielding plant like Jatropha. Yours A.D.Karve More from Dr Karve: Jatropha oil as household energy -- A critique of Jatropha in India: http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg48290.html Best Keith ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail QA for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=listsid=396546091 ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Jatropha in India
Good reading http://www.biodieselsociety.org/news_international.asp Are you kidding?? It's a load of obnoxious crap. ... if even a quarter of the continent's [Africa's] arable land were plowed into jatropha plantations, output would surpass 20 million barrels a day. So let's turn a quarter of Africa into a neo-colonial plantation economy rather than risk Europe having to tighten its prodigious belt a little (which it will have to do anyway). Sheesh! You once posted a recommendation to Dr. Karve's ARTI Institute: http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg66982.html [Biofuel] Useful link Sivaramakrishnan Ananthakrishnan Tue, 31 Oct 2006 Why don't you listen to what he's saying? Keith - Original Message From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:53:57 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Jatropha in India Comment at the stoves list on jatropha by Dr. A. D. Karve, president of the Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) in Maharashtra, India (excerpts): Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:51:14 +0530 From: adkarve [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Stoves] The PROTOS Plant Oil Cooker I fail to understand, why the Government of India is making so much propaganda about Jatropha, which is a low yielding, wild plant. Nobody in India has ever obtained more than 300 to 400 kg of oil per ha from Jatropha. ... Any cultivated oilseed plant species, which has been subjected to plant breeding input, would yield more oil than Jatropha... Land is in short supply. If one has to use land to grow anything, one should not grow a low yielding plant like Jatropha. Yours A.D.Karve More from Dr Karve: Jatropha oil as household energy -- A critique of Jatropha in India: http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg48290.html Best Keith - Original Message From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:53:57 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Jatropha in India Comment at the stoves list on jatropha by Dr. A. D. Karve, president of the Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) in Maharashtra, India (excerpts): Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:51:14 +0530 From: adkarve [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Stoves] The PROTOS Plant Oil Cooker I fail to understand, why the Government of India is making so much propaganda about Jatropha, which is a low yielding, wild plant. Nobody in India has ever obtained more than 300 to 400 kg of oil per ha from Jatropha. ... Any cultivated oilseed plant species, which has been subjected to plant breeding input, would yield more oil than Jatropha... Land is in short supply. If one has to use land to grow anything, one should not grow a low yielding plant like Jatropha. Yours A.D.Karve More from Dr Karve: Jatropha oil as household energy -- A critique of Jatropha in India: http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg48290.html Best Keith ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Jatropha in India
Comment at the stoves list on jatropha by Dr. A. D. Karve, president of the Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) in Maharashtra, India (excerpts): Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:51:14 +0530 From: adkarve [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Stoves] The PROTOS Plant Oil Cooker I fail to understand, why the Government of India is making so much propaganda about Jatropha, which is a low yielding, wild plant. Nobody in India has ever obtained more than 300 to 400 kg of oil per ha from Jatropha. ... Any cultivated oilseed plant species, which has been subjected to plant breeding input, would yield more oil than Jatropha... Land is in short supply. If one has to use land to grow anything, one should not grow a low yielding plant like Jatropha. Yours A.D.Karve More from Dr Karve: Jatropha oil as household energy -- A critique of Jatropha in India: http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg48290.html Best Keith ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
