Bio Fuel from Jatropha Seed

Today’s fossil fuels took billions of years to form from organic matter, yet we will consume them all in less than a century and spew their carbon products of combustion into the atmosphere with serious environmental consequences.

Bio fuel technology will allow the same type of organic matter to be converted to usable fuel in a matter of minutes. By growing the vegetation which produces the oil, as much or more carbon is absorbed from the atmosphere during the growing process (photosynthesis) as is released to the atmosphere when the oil is burned. Thus the vegetable oil is termed "carbon-neutral."

The original focus of bio fuel producers was on such vegetable oil bearing plants as soybeans, rapeseed and palm oil. However, producers have now realized that these were produced from valuable and vital sources of human-consumable protein, essential to feeding the world. A source of inedible oil was needed produced by crops that could grow on poor, arid soils where food could hardly grow.

One such answer is Jatropha curcas a plant that produces the best quality diesel at the best yields compared with any other vegetable oil.

It is now a CEED objective to encourage and partner with bio fuel produers toplant Jatropha curcas on major tracts of land in Uganda, especially in the arid northern regions where food crops are not easily grown.

Jatropha curcas can be grown on a small scale by peasant farmers and on a large scale on major plantations. These farms will offer job opportunities where none existed before, and have the potential to create an export industry for Uganda.