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 Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=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/
