from: FACT (Fuel from Agriculture in Communal Technology) Position Paper (summaried by Wisnu Martono)

Many international and national investors have rushed in to establish large acreages to be cultivated with Jatropha curcas. Evidence of this trend can be found in many African countries (Ethiopia, Mozambique, Senegal, Gambia, etc..) and in Latin America (eg. Brazil, Honduras, Belize etc.). In Asia also mega investment plans are proposed, e.g. in India, Philippines, Indonesia and China. Read more »

All of our activities always depend to energy and nowdays there are big dependend on worldwide to fossil fuel. We know that fossil fuel can’t sustain our activities forever, because it non-renewable energy resources. Gasoline as fuel for our vehicles include one of fossil fuels and when no more again gasoline how we can traveling by car?Big question for us.

Now we have found other fuel substitute to gasoline that made from biomass raw material, and we call it by bio-ethanol. Bio-ethanol can be produced from all of biomass which have glucose/carbohydrate composition. All of biomass resources are renewable energy but it have limited on production. We can’t use food crop as our energy raw material because that will disturb our food supply. There are big danger when most of food crop area change to grow raw material of bio-ethanol. Read more »