Thu, Feb 11, 2010
Biofuel Plant One Of Several Experiments On Board STS-130
UK-based Carbon Credited Farming
(CCF) congratulated NASA on the successful launch of the Endeavour
Space Shuttle today. It lifted off from Kennedy Space Center taking
with it new scientific experiments, including a study of the
Jatropha curcas plant, used for producing biofuel, to see if its
breeding process can be shortened for commercial use.
Jatropha is a tenacious plant whose nuts are used to produce
biofuels, which are increasingly being referred to as "Green Oil".
It grows well in soil that is otherwise unsuitable for food crops
and produces sustainable, renewable energy in contrast to
inefficient and harmful crude oil products.
NASA's decision to experiment with accelerating the production
process of Jatropha based biofuels underscores the validity and
urgent need for the production and mass market implementation of
biofuels into the marketplace," said Gregg Fryett, Managing
Director of CCF. "Carbon Credited Farming has Green Oil plantations
established in a growing number of locations across the globe and
celebrates this development as further validation of our efforts to
forge an alternative to harmful crude oil churned out by the big
oil industry."
CCF says Jatropha-based biofuels have experienced many market
validations in recent days, including:
- Toyota Tsusho Corporation, the parent company of Toyota Motor
Corporation, is extending its holdings beyond automobiles to the
substances that fuel them by investing in the cultivation of
jatropha, which Toyota intends to refine into biodiesel.
- Daimler AG has started a new project for the cultivation of the
biodiesel raw material Jatropha in the south of India. The company
is supporting several village communities in the state of Tamil
Nadu with funds and expertise from its already successfully
completed research projects in Jatropha.
- Carbon Credited Farming (CCF) was recently featured in
Bloomberg's New Energy Finance, the world's leading provider of
industry information and analysis to investors, corporations and
governments in clean energy, low carbon technologies and the carbon
markets. The feature reported on CCF's joint venture with Crest
Global Green Energy to develop jatropha plantations worth USD $60m
in Mali and Senegal.
Carbon Credited Farming says it has many more developments in
its pipeline that will continue to help cultivate and provide
leadership to this growing sector of the energy industry.
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