JATROPHA CURCAS: PROMISING BIOFUEL FEEDSTOCK OR INVASIVE SPECIES?
24th August 2007
Read it. There was an article about jatropha in the Wall Street Journal (alas, behind the subscription wall) describing it as an interesting new product:
By some estimates, the per-barrel cost to produce biofuel using jatropha — about $43 — is about half that of corn and roughly one-third that of rapeseed, two other leading materials for alternative energy. At those prices, jatropha biodiesel would be competitive with fuel made from crude oil without significant government subsidies.
That sounds very promising. The top article, although it sounds a cautionary note, doesn’t really have anything negative to say about it.