D1 Oils, Abundant Biofuels Report Progress in Jatropha Development
posted by Mak @ 4:10 AM | Friday, August 28, 2009 1 Comments
Jatropha development is moving forward as Abundant Biofuels Corp. offers long term contracts and D1 Oils plc, based in the U.K., refocuses its business. Abundant Biofuels, based in Monterey, Calif., announced the availability of long-term, five to 10 year contracts to supply jatropha oil to U.S. refiners.The company is also planting jatropha in Peru, the Dominican Republic and other developing nations.
According to the CEO and Chairman Charles Fishel reports the company will potentially have access to 6 million acres of jatropha.D1 Oils plc is reorganizing its jatropha development efforts to focus on plantings totaling about 540,000 acres in northeastern India, Malawi and Zambia where the crop has performed well and will be scalable, according to D1 Oils’ spokesman Graham Prince.They could be slated to begin in 12 months to 18 months and for any quantity up to 35 million gallons, and they planned to expand from there.
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According to the CEO and Chairman Charles Fishel reports the company will potentially have access to 6 million acres of jatropha.D1 Oils plc is reorganizing its jatropha development efforts to focus on plantings totaling about 540,000 acres in northeastern India, Malawi and Zambia where the crop has performed well and will be scalable, according to D1 Oils’ spokesman Graham Prince.They could be slated to begin in 12 months to 18 months and for any quantity up to 35 million gallons, and they planned to expand from there.
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THIS IS A LARGE SCALE OPERATIONAL DESIGN THAT CAN BE REPLICATED AT MULTIPLE SUB TROPICAL STRATEGIC REGIONAL LOCATIONS.
http://sustainableenergyinafrica.ning.com/profiles/blogs/bio-jet-fuel-kbcjcl-model
Bio Jet Fuel KBC-JCL model
Currently we are reviewing the Complete Design, Build, Operate costs for TBOS croping and Intercrop specific Biomass to Liquid, CHP and assoreted chemicals Biorefinery Technology. There is a good chance that the Capital cost will be somewhat lower than the $3.00 USD Billion Dollars suggested below.
What is suggested above is 20 Times the size of the KBC outline model(http://sustainableenergyinafrica.ning.com/profiles/blogs/bio-jet-fuel-kbcjcl-model).
At $4000 USD per professional Ha of Agricultural extension this is a value of $24,000,000,000 in Agriculture extension and about $60,000,000,000 in technology, logistics, management, professional services, so $84,000,000,000(ish).
While one can appreciate all of the global efforts to identify improved strains of Jatropha and methodologies to improve yield the hard fact of cultivation on non-food, marginal, semi arid, rain fed lands is that professional supported agricultural extension of some magnitude has to be managed efficiently to deliver harvest values to a Biorefinery designed to deliver "least Cost" substitutes for exceptionally low cost per unit liquid fuels, energy outputs/Kwh and useful chemicals (products) which can include medicinal inputs, bio plastics, resins etc etc.
While one can hold in high esteem the huge number of professionals and executives who support the promotion of Jatropha Curcas and other TBOS/Biomass opportunities that are targeted to assist the lives of the rural poor we should not be focused on supporting the sustainability of subsistence agriculture.
Professional large scale agricultural extension designed to cultivate, collect and produce desirable quality market demanded products can deliver immense benefits to the rural poor of the developing regions, improve food and fuel security, promote improved water management and above all allow the rural communities access to participate with a new industry model that can deliver sustainable improvements to life.
We are progressing the development of our model for Jatropha Curcas Linn towards being able to represent a complete industry model that can be replicated at strategic locations throughout the sub tropical regions.
We have now identified with the Agricultural extension, Biomass, Bio refinery and technology processes that can lead to the delivery of advanced liquid fuels and CHP operations, for export and national markets, as well as additional value added commodity opportunities.
There is no technical reason why strategically placed JCL cultivation, Biorefinery operations cannot be replicated throughout the sub tropical regions and the triple bottom line incentives for doing so incentives for doing so deserve full financial support.
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