Only a few years ago Jatropha was considered to be the wonder biodiesel feedstock suitable for production by small scale farmers in poor soils and arid countries. It has not lived up to the hype and it will be years before it can compete agronomically with soya and it is not scalable to the refining [...]
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 Africa Biofuel and Emission Reduction Company is focussed on bringing a triple-bottom-line biofuel business model to Africa.
from: Africa Biofuels (click image for full story online)
Africa Biofuels set out to find a biofuel process that did not compete for a food or use agricultural land. It looked for a product [...] With the increasing pressures on the production of biofuels from foods (ethanol from maize and biodiesel from edible oil) there is an increasing call for the production of biofuels from waste.
from: New York Times (click image for full story online)
This above article in the New York Times notes that there [...] I wrote this some weeks ago but failed to post it because of my travels! Two announcements – the closure of processing in the UK by D2 oil and the opening of a “micro biodiesel facility” that will use waste oil and jatropha oil by De-Ord Fuel indicate the over optimism around Jatropha and the [...] A month or so I ago I posted a story on the use of waste streams as raw materials for processing. I noted that there were cases in the USA where waste oil products from restaurants had become so valued that crime and “fat lifting” had began. Now Petrotec have opened a 100 000 tons [...] Waste cooking oil becomes a valuable feedstock and encourages crime. [...] This is a particularly nice idea where the biodiesel can be used to meet simpler energy needs such as lamps, cooking stoves and unsophisticated generators.
from: Timbuktu Chronicles (click image for full story online)
However, this blog addresses few of the issues that will impact on the achievement of sustainable operation of [...] Just a short comment, when the biofuels debate reaches the front page of Time magazine, it is surely significant. from: Time (click image for full story online) Although the contradictors are already at work, I feel we should all acknowledge that very massive and rapid change is happening that could have extremely serious [...] I’n now seeing articles about “fourth generation” biofuels, like the one below from Biopact, while I was still in the second generation. from Biopact For those who are maybe as confused as I am, this is how I understand it it. First Generation – these are the ones we all know and the [...] The Independent reported on two “environmental activists”Andy Pag and John Grimshaw who were setting out to drive from Dorset to Timbuktu in a car powered by chocolate waste. They left their home town of Poole, Dorset, on a cross-Channel ferry yesterday. They are travelling in a Ford Iveco Cargo lorry powered by fuel which began [...] |
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