Re: [Biofuel] jatropha curcas

[martin roozenburg]

No myth, there is a non-edible specie, growing in the tropics in the wild and a edible specie coming from S-America, both are used a lot, the advantage for the non toxic is that the cake can be used to feed the animals, while the toxic one is used for fertilising, and fuel in the form of brickets,

 

greetings

martin Roozenburg

lres1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Maybe some one there can help here as well.

There are or seem to be two thoughts on the growing of Physic nut/Jatropha Curcas. One is that the Asian variety has a Carcinogenic property producing cells in skin tissue from contact with the plant or some parts thereof. The second is that the type found in Mexico does not have the above character.

 

Is this a myth? 

 

Doug

 

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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 producing bio diesel and that is why we posted our original questions and gave a brief explanation why we though it would be best to use jatropha.

 

We have literally read every article we can find about producing bio diesel and to date  have not found in our opinion any crop better suited for us to produce bio diesel from, as a matter fact it seems from what we have read that jatropha is the number one choice world wide to produce bio diesel from.

 

You obviously have a lot of experience & knowledge regarding producing bio diesel as well as what to use to do so. Therefore If you believe jatropha is not the way to go it would be greatly appreciated if you would say so & why you think so, because as I have said before we are asking for advice and if you have reasons to believe that jatropha is unsuitable I would like to know about them so as to enable us to make a fully enlightened decision.

 

 

Kind regards.

 

Isabel.

 

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