Hello Keith, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:25 AM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Ratifying the Kyoto Protocol
> Hello Balaji > > >Hello Everybody, <snip> > Thanks much for this below, nice clear summary. Glad you appreciate it. > > > >There are serious concerns about using a monocrop such as Jatropha and no > >doubt course correction will occur as we go along. > > We've had some concern here too about the jatropha itself, and what > that approach means. A.D. Karve didn't get good results with jatropha > in India. See: > http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/BIOFUEL/19671/ Thanks for the link. As you rightly point out, the procrustean one-solution-for-all mindset will stretch the mission to breaking point, unless addressed early. > Monocropping aside, the selection of jatropha itself as the "best > crop" is not a happy approach. This sort of one-size-fits-all, > "best-technology" solution is seldom appropriate. It needs a much > more localised, "micro-regional" approach to find what the best crops > (more likely "crops" than "crop") are, AND that needs to be a > decision reached with the full involvement a all levels of the local > community. Hopefully course corrections will take these factors into > account. I'd expect that they would, there's much experience of this > in India, of both sides of that coin. <snip> > >The biggest flaw, however > >is the proposal to establish a 100,000 TPA biodiesel plant in each state to > >process the oil into biodiesel. This is a direct result of the Oil > >Companies' apprehensions about quality of biodiesel from local producers. I > >am sure local inititative will overcome this as well as set more ambitious > >targets for higher levels of blending/comlpete converions ot B100. > > :-) In both the US and Europe there's been this same determined > knee-jerk "perils of the homebrew" attitude by the "industry" fearing > that a bunch of maverick homebrewers would mess up the market with > their sub-spec biodiesel, along with apocryphal myths of actual cases > that industry people swore to, but, when they were put under > pressure, it all turned out to be hot air. In fact it's been the > other way round, rather hilariously, with sub-spec commercial brew > distributed by industry causing problems and the homebrewers having > to do the cleaning up afterwards. If you'd like to know more about > this, do a search for "Noyes" in the Biofuels-biz archives and follow > the threads. Quite a lot to read, but quite an eye-opener. > http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuels-biz/ > Europe too has had problems with commercial brew, but none that are > known of with homebrew. > > All it means is that they want to keep control. It's most important > IMO that they should lose control. <snip> > >India's ponderous gait reminds us of that lumbering and gentle giant, the > >elephant, rather than the supercilious disdain of the tortoise. > > It's easy to see you are not an African! (I'm an African.) That is > not a good description of an African elephant - a very unwise > description! Almost as unwise as it would be to try to hitch a plough > to a Cape buffalo as opposed to a water-buffalo. Very true. Even in India, we have horror stories of marauding elephant herds that ransack villages under pressure of habitat loss. The giant is gentle and lumbering, no pun intended, :) only after being housebroken in a way. > But yes, in the Indian context it's a good comparison. But how to > replace the hare in the fable? Is there an Indian equivalent? Not to my knowledge > > > snip < Regards. Balaji ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
