Re: [Biofuel] Jatropha Curcas Where

2005-12-15 Thread martin roozenburg
Hi Ires,The India Jatropha is non edible, so the cake is not for animal flodder, the edible specie is comming from Costa Rica or Nicaragua and Mexico, can not help you with adresses. WE buy in India and crop it in Tanzania, the pressed cake and the nutshell we press in briquettes to replace

Re: [Biofuel] Jatropha Curcas Where

2005-12-14 Thread lres1
Arden and all,Thank you for your suggestion but so far have been unable to locate any place that sells Jatropha seeds from Mexico, they all seem to be from India and am not sure if they are the toxic or non-toxic seeds. The mail system here is very slow. Running the best it does at 20 to

Re: [Biofuel] Jatropha Curcas Where

2005-12-13 Thread prakash chhangani
Dear sir, If you are interested from supplies from India we can help you. Please advise. Yours truly, Prakash Chhagani lres1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to trouble all but am unable to find a site where I can buy seeds for Jatropha Curcus, the non-toxic varietyfrom

Re: [Biofuel] Jatropha Curcas Where

2005-12-13 Thread Arden B. Norder
Try to Google for: Jatropha Curcas seeds. I got a couple hundred references as to where to purchase seeds. Good luck Arden ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org

[Biofuel] Jatropha Curcas Where

2005-12-12 Thread lres1
Sorry to trouble all but am unable to find a site where I can buy seeds for Jatropha Curcus, the non-toxic varietyfrom Mexico. That is I would like to be able to locate 100 kilograms of such seeds at minimum for propagation into a hedge type stabilizing system for steep hillsides that have

Re: [Biofuel] jatropha curcas

2005-12-05 Thread doug
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Isabel I heard today that castor beans are an excellent source of biodiesel. Does anyone know if this is true? Marilyn I can't say what the transesterification might affect in castor oil, but on another list I subscribe to, (clocks) the gentlemen who have cleaned

Re: [Biofuel] jatropha curcas

2005-12-05 Thread lres1
is that the type found in Mexico does not have the above character. Is this amyth? Doug - Original Message - From: isabel taylor To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 4:00 AM Subject: [Biofuel] jatropha curcas

Re: [Biofuel] jatropha curcas

2005-12-05 Thread Mike Weaver
Iresearched it - it was feasible from a theoretical point of view - has anyone tried it? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Isabel I heard today that castor beans are an excellent source of biodiesel. Does anyone know if this is true? Marilyn Biofuel@sustainablelists.org wrote: Note: Forwarded

Re: [Biofuel] jatropha curcas

2005-12-05 Thread martin roozenburg
Jatropha is big in India, even Mercedes has a 9000 hectares plot with cultivated Jatropha, in Senegal is D1 from England with 20.000 hectares and in Tanzania there is Tanlapia with 18.000 hectares.Regards, Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Iresearched it - it was feasible from a

Re: [Biofuel] jatropha curcas

2005-12-05 Thread martin roozenburg
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Re: [Biofuel] jatropha curcas

2005-12-05 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Isabel Hi Keith It seems as if you don't think it is a good idea to use Jatropha as a source to produce bio diesel from? I think whether it's a good idea or not depends entirely on the immediate context of where you're planning to grow it. One of the replies you got warned you against the

Re: [Biofuel] jatropha curcas

2005-12-05 Thread Keith Addison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Isabel I heard today that castor beans are an excellent source of biodiesel. Does anyone know if this is true? Marilyn I can't say what the transesterification might affect in castor oil, but on another list I subscribe to, (clocks) the gentlemen who have

Re: [Biofuel] jatropha curcas

2005-12-05 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Isabel I heard today that castor beans are an excellent source of biodiesel. Does anyone know if this is true? Marilyn Er... http://snipurl.com/kia1 biofuel - Search results for 'castor' 255 matches Eg: Brasil is going ahead with great biodiesel project in large scale production such

Re: [Biofuel] jatropha curcas

2005-12-05 Thread balajit
is that the type found in Mexico does not have the above character. Is this amyth? Doug - Original Message - From: isabel taylor To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 4:00 AM Subject: [Biofuel] jatropha curcas

[Biofuel] jatropha curcas

2005-12-04 Thread isabel taylor
Hi Keith It seems as if you don't think it is a good idea to use Jatropha as a source to produce bio diesel from? When I originally posed the question I only received a few messages and none of them was negative. Maybe I missed something! As I originally explained we know nothing about

Re: [Biofuel] jatropha curcas

2005-12-04 Thread marilyn
Hi Isabel I heard today that castor beans are an excellent source of biodiesel. Does anyone know if this is true? Marilyn Biofuel@sustainablelists.org wrote: Note: Forwarded Email Message Below: Hi Keith It seems as if you don't think it is a good idea to use Jatropha as a source to

Re: [Biofuel] Jatropha Curcas

2005-10-31 Thread Kurt Nolte
for a silver bullet plant or the widespread introduction of one that is deemed better might choke out natural flora. Introduction of Jatropha looks like it would have a rather high potential for doing just that, since it grows in such a variety of soil conditions. I just have to look outside

Re: [Biofuel] Jatropha Curcas

2005-10-31 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Biofuel@sustainablelists.org wrote:We are thinking of planting Jatropha Curcas trees using earthworms tocompost waste, the compost we get from the wormswe will use for the Jatropha trees.This URL has a very good article on jatropha's benefits as a fuel and for other

Re: [Biofuel] Jatropha Curcas

2005-10-31 Thread Keith Addison
Big thing that worries me about anything like this is that the search for a silver bullet plant or the widespread introduction of one that is deemed better might choke out natural flora. Introduction of Jatropha looks like it would have a rather high potential for doing just that, since it

Re: [Biofuel] Jatropha Curcas

2005-10-30 Thread marilyn
Biofuel@sustainablelists.org wrote: We are thinking of planting Jatropha Curcas trees using earth worms tocompost waste, the compost we get from the worms we will use for the Jatropha trees. This URL has a very good article on jatropha's benefits as a fuel and for other things.

Re: [Biofuel] Jatropha Curcas

2005-10-20 Thread DHAWA PESCAS, LDA
of this seed to you as well, it grows here. Good luck with your plan. Jed - Original Message - From: isabel taylor To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:27 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Jatropha Curcas We are thinking ofplanting Jatropha

Re: [Biofuel] Jatropha Curcas -

2005-10-20 Thread dmills
Hi Isabel, 2. We have ordered seeds from India and we intend planting these seeds and once the trees are old enough we take cuttings from them, we will supply the local people with these cuttings so that they will be able to establish small plantations. Apparently Jatropha grows easily

[Biofuel] Jatropha Curcas

2005-10-19 Thread isabel taylor
We are thinking ofplanting Jatropha Curcas treesusing earth worms to compost waste, the compost we get from the worms we will use for the Jatrophatrees. We are think of only planting Jatropha because of the following reasons: 1. Once planted the Jatropha trees bear for approximately 50 years.

[biofuel] jatropha curcas

2004-03-08 Thread Theo Taylor
x-charset ISO-8859-1We are interested in planting jatropha curcas for producing our own biodiesel and have found quite a bit of information on the net but a lot of it is conflicting. So we have a lot of questions that we need answering and would appreciate any help in this regard. We are also

Re: [biofuel] jatropha curcas

2004-03-08 Thread Keith Addison
x-charset ISO-8859-1Hello Theo We are interested in planting jatropha curcas for producing our own biodiesel and have found quite a bit of information on the net but a lot of it is conflicting. So we have a lot of questions that we need answering and would appreciate any help in this regard.