The reason it is not a food crop is because it is toxic to humans. The people in India selling seeds say it takes 5 years to come to maturity.
-Dave Walton On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 6:18 PM, LarryT <l02tur...@comcast.net> wrote: > Was flipping thru boring magazines in a doctors waiting room when a article > caught my attention - seems a tree/bush grows beans that can be turned into > pretty high quality diesel fuel. They said a guy in Fla had planted several > hundred (thousand?) acres in the stuff as an investment and he had been able > to develop hybrids even better than that being grown in other countries. The > Fl environment seems to help the bush grow also. > > Seems they can produce as mush as 1600 gallons of diesel per acre per > growing season. Plus, it's not a food source so it doesn't compete with > people starving. > > Found this http://www.jatrophabiodiesel.org/ - sorry if this has been > discussed - haven't been able to read the ist as often as I'd like. > > LarryT > 91 300D > 78 240D > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090317/a4dfe8c8/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
