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Renewable energy company Jatoil has made the first sale of a commercial quantity of crude jatropha oil.
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HA NOI — The Government of Viet Nam has guided its ministries to encourage bio-fuel development to reduce dependence on the fossil fuels and to protect the environment.
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai last week urged ministries to give incentives...
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Waterland International and the Indonesian State owned forestry company Perum Perhutani Unit 1 are pleased to announce that Waterland’s Jatropha Plantations have been selected as Best Forestry Project in Indonesia for the year 2009. This is in addition ...
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Australia-listed Mission NewEnergy said Thursday that it has shipped commercial quantities of jatropha oil from its extensive network across India to its biodiesel refinery in Malaysia
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A large part of Joyce Nzuki’s farm in Yatta in Kitui District is a lush green tree that some hope could transform how Kenyans cook their food, and power cars, generators and planes. It could also help the country stop massive destruction of forests to...
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Aston's Income Builder has been launched in order to simplify the investment cycle in a biofuel plant known as Jatropha. Jatropha's potential to help halt the effects of climate change are vast, reducing 66-68% of the greenhouse gas emissions when compa...
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Guide released by Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) and www.enviro.aero.
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ALTA yesterday announced that TAM will operate Latin America's first biofuel demonstration flight in the second half of 2010 using an A320 partially powered by fuel derived from jatropha.
The flight will be conducted in conjunction with Airbus and CFM In...
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With so much talk about the auto industry's effort's to find alternative fuels, it's no wonder that aviation corporations are joining the search to reduce carbon emissions. Aerospace and defense giant Boeing and Chinese oil company PetroChina along wi...
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Indonesia based PT Waterland International has recently delivered the Bosch and Siemens Home Appliance Group's Protos Stove to local communities living near its Jatropha plantations in the region of Purwodadi – Central Java. Waterland will supply the Ja...
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Boeing and PetroChina, together with representatives of the Chinese energy sector and the global aviation industry, today announced the signing of an agreement to evaluate establishing a sustainable aviation biofuels industry in China. The strategic asses...
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The greenest fuels would become the cheapest under plans for a pan-European energy tax which would also help governments tackle huge debts without raising taxes on workers, draft documents show.
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Researchers of the Tarlac College of Agriculture have discovered new pest control for jatropha curcas, which is now being propagated all over the country for biofuel production.
The researchers, led by Dr. Manuelo Agsaoay, came up with biological contro...
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In China, Boeing, Air China and PetroChina announced that they will partner on the testing of a jatropha-based BioSPK fuel for aviation. Al Bryant, a research VP for Boeing, said that he expected the jatropha-based fuel would begin becoming available betw...
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...‘Globally we’re currently seeing about 10 million tonnes (a year) of demand for renewable biodiesel,’...
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At a ceremony after the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue meeting, Boeing agreed to collaborate on the launch with carrier Air China and oil major PetroChina, which will provide the jatropha-based fuel feedstock for the project.
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TAM, South America’s largest airline, plans to hold a non-commercial demonstration flight in the second half of 2010 using a mixture of aviation bio-fuel, which will include Brazilian vegetable biomass from the jatropha plant.
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The Central Salt Marine Chemicals and Research Institute (CSMCRI) located in Bhavnagar district of the state has hit upon a process by which biodegradable polymers can be developed at almost zero-cost using one of the byproducts of Jatropha — a drought-...
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The goal of the project is to demonstrate that jatropha can produce significant quantities of oil for commercial scale conversion to biodiesel. The partnership will also explore the development of new varieties of the plant that have high yields, [and] ca...
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General Motors India, along with the US Department of Energy, has tied up with Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute under the ministry of science and technology to grow jatropha. Jatropha is used in the manufacture of biofuel.
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