Found one such "Jatropha Carcas" the future bio diesel.
Man this is amazing!! One plant cansolve the fertility (Oasis ) and Peak oil problem...
My friend Harini wrote abt Jatropha:
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There is one more interesting alternative to depleting oil deposits in the world. If you have time go through articles on Jatropha, the biodiesel producing plants…Yes it is actually possible!!!!!! The seeds produced by the plant Jatropha curcas can be processed to produce biodiesel, which gives the same efficiency as given by petrol/diesel to run automobiles. Many big companies have already started to test their vehicles using this biodiesel, (5% mixture with petrol).
Good news is it can be used almost 50% to 100% in place of conventional oil…that is no mixture with petrol. Daimler Chrysler has already tested this oil and run a vehicle across the country (from Pune thru Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, etc). Biodiesel has also been tried and tested in a commercial train in India, The shatabdi express.
One more good news is that this plant Jatropha curcas can grow well in arid and semi arid areas (Places with little rainfall) like our Deccan plateau. It has been identified that there is about 130 to 200 million hectares of arid land available in India, where the government plans to grow Jatropha curcas. One hectare of Jatropha plantation yields up to 8 tonnes of oil seeds per year, and 30% of these can be converted to oil. So every hectare of land produces up to 3 tonnes of oil per year. And 200 million hectares would produce 600 million tonnes of oil per year (80 million barrels (7.5 barrels of oil = 1 ton)).
Second good news is planting Jatropha will reverse desertification. That is once arid and dry lands will attract more rainfall and become fertile. Weather will improve. Rainfall will increase.
Next, the other parts of these oil seeds can be used to prepare glycerin (main ingredient in soaps), produce raw materials for many medicines and many many other things.
Now coming to the best part of this biodiesel, it is essentially non polluting like our conventional oil. So pollution levels go down a lot!!!!!!!!!!!
Isn’t it something wonderful?
Other details- Countries in Africa can develop and benefit a lot by this biodiesel plantation, as entire Africa has 1630 million hectares of land available land for Jatropha cultivation.
If you are thinking our scientists are doing nothing but waiting for the doomsday, don’t worry. We are doing all we can to find alternative sources of energy.
Read more on this on net.
There are many more interesting topics on which I have gained wide knowledge recently. Like biodegradable plastics, about discovery of 600 species of bacteria which can decompose conventional plastics, other sources of energy like oil sands of Canada and Alberta, Tar sands, oil shale found in Australia, etc
And more interesting theories like Conventional oil is not actually a fossil fuel, and is in continuous process of forming etc…..
Cheers
Harini
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Ummha Harini..
Thank u so much , we were so ignorant abt this Bio diesel.
www.jatropha.de/ jatropha-world-map.htm