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Jet test should spark quest for new biofuels

Posted on Friday, January 2, 2009 posted by posted by Mak @ 6:56 AM

AN Air New Zealand jet thundered through the sky on a two-hour flight this week — on a 50-50 blend of ordinary fuel and one made of seeds from the African desert. The successful flight was promising for the airline industry, and truly exciting for the environment and the hope for national fuel autonomy.Tuesday's test was the first commercial air flight to use fuel from the jatropha weed . Each jatropha seed produces between 30 and 40 percent of its mass in oil.

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World's First Commercial Aviation Using Biofuels Closer to Reality

Posted on Thursday, October 30, 2008 posted by posted by Ecacofonix @ 8:58 PM

The world's first commercial aviation flight powered by a sustainable second-generation biofuel moved a step closer this week.

The jatropha-based fuel to power one of four engines on the Air New Zealand Boeing 747-400, has arrived at the Rolls-Royce facility in Derby, UK, for testing prior to the flight.

Preliminary data shows the fuel meets all required specifications for use in commercial aviation and a technical team led by Rolls Royce is now putting the fuel through a rigorous testing process to further validate its specifications.

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Plans for Jatropha Biodiesel in India

Posted on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 posted by posted by Ecacofonix @ 10:53 AM

Plans for Jatropha Biodiesel in India

Quoting from a post I saw at Biodiesel Blog:

"...in certain parts of the world, governments and some corporations consider the jatropha plant, common in hot climates, one of the most promising sources of biodiesel. The plant can grow in wastelands, and it yields more than four times as much fuel per hectare as soybean, and more than ten times that of corn. But the commercial-scale cultivation of jatropha, which has not previously been grown as a crop, raises several significant challenges."

..."So far, the project has signed up 5,000 farmers representing 1,000 hectares of land. The goal is to have 8,000 hectares under cultivation by March 2008, and Adholeya says that the success of the first crops has drawn interest from many more farmers....Eventually, it aims to produce 90 million liters of biodiesel annually."

Source: Biodiesel Blog

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Van Der Horst Biodiesel builds plant in Singapore

Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 posted by posted by Ecacofonix @ 7:53 AM

Van Der Horst Biodiesel builds S$40m plant in Singapore

By Tung Shing Yi, Channel NewsAsia, 21 March 2007

SINGAPORE: Van Der Horst Biodiesel is planning to build Singapore's first biodiesel plant that uses Jatropha as feedstock.

The plant on Jurong Island will cost the joint venture between Van Der Horst Engineering and the Institute of Environmental Science and Engineering, which is an institute linked to Nanyang Technological University, S$40 million.

Read the full report from here @ Channel News Asia

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  In the beginning, there were algae,
but there was no oil Then, from algae came oil.
Now, the algae are still there, but oil is fast depleting
In future, there will be no oil, but there will still be algae  
So, doesn't it make sense to explore if we can again get oil from algae?
This is what we try to do at Oilgae.com - explore the potential of getting oil from algae