Securing water. Stopping Co2, turning deserts and regions endangered
by aridity green, supplying earth with energy, stopping the problem of
migration and wars for oil. How can that be done? Is it possible at
all?- By an oil plant! The so-called Jatropha oil.
Jatropha grows world-wide, not only in deserts. It is a spurge plant,
combines CO2 in the air and takes energy out of the latter one. Jatropha
grows excellently in desert regions and wherever erosion dominates. It
grows in Germany, in Mali, Peru, Ghana, Tanzania, China and the USA; in
short: everywhere, even in regions where nothing else can grow!
The plant keeps the ground water in the earth and yields oil fruits that
can be used at its optimum from a technical point of view. Their quality
turns out much better than that one of the oil palm or the rape seed. It
is a plant of several years that can be harvested all the year over.
Cars, trucks, ship engines and power stations can be operated by it
economically and without being a danger to the ground water. In tanker
accidents this oil will dissolve in water. The so-called pressed “cake”
is the best fertiliser and protection of plants. As a hedge Jatropha
will not only protect gardens from aridity but also from being wasted by
wild animals. Jatropha contains bitter parts that makes animals refrain
from eating. Jatropha is robust and unsusceptible. Its fruit contains a
portion of 50 % of fat.
This oil plant can be grown world–wide and create labour at any
thinkable place. 20% of the African area would be sufficient to meet
today’s requirements. It should be our severe duty toward mankind and
the world of animals to supply our world with sun energy. For there are
masses of it all over the world. This energy is to be used without
further hesitation. Some governments and farsighted members of the Bill
& Melindas Gates Foundation , the Robert Bosch , the Garfield Weston ,
the Dietmar Hopp Foundations and some others have recognised that and
try to save of what is left to save.
It is quite plain there is an answer to any question, a solution to any
problem. But unfortunately man is slow and finances are kept by the
wrong people. Thus our life is mostly destined by other than renewable
energies. Profits are still taken from conventional industries and
resources. This is going on though our whole world may be doomed to end
up in a
Catastrophe.
Catastrophe.
We have been wondering for years how this development can be stopped and
found out that it can only be done the commercial way. Money rules the
world. And we find that oil is the solution or the end of its history.
We wonder why not decades ago plant oil was considered useful to operate
machines. Due to its good quality even Rudolf Diesel favoured it. He was
quoted as saying: “ Some day in future plant oils will be of great
importance for my development of diesel engines.” That was stated 94
years ago. So much time has been wasted and no end of this disastrous
development seems to be in sight, but instead several branches of the
industry, creators of CO2 and shortage of water, will obviously die
before man will.
We on the other hand feel sure that we have found the means how to
handle the situation and keep our earth green. That is why we are
looking for investors and interested forces who can help us making
deserts and our planet as a whole green. We need some money to get
everything started, which can be kept at a low level compared to other
activities of this kind. We feel sorry that we are not able to pay up
for the seeds of the collectors of Jatropha and the first harvests
without the urgently needed money for a start. This must be said in
spite of numerous existing test results. The one and only task that has
to be done is: Practise everything. We do start in Nepal where we are
going to take over the Jatropha project from they all aspire to become
independent of mineral oil. But at the moment there are China and India
that dictate oil prices Thus a small country like Nepal is looking for
a way between. It seems to be a good idea for Australia to follow suit
and so to keep its industry (including inhabitants and towns) running.
Generally speaking our ideas seem to be an effective way to let people
survive on earth.
We ask you to come on board of oil business. You may well become a
saviour of our earth. Share our oil business. It is our intention to
save our earth. Do join us and give us a helping hand.
The following persons make up the Jatropha International:
Martin Conzen ( Biopaep Germany;
www.biopaep.de)
Jan Laumann (Bt Autoöl- Germany –
www.bt-auto-oel.de )
Bhandarie Ashok (Nepal), Dr. Sushil ( Nepal- Kathmandu University;
www.nepalgov.np ).
Every day you can learn from the media that a lot of experts and other people worry about how to stop the heating of the earth and how at the same time the world can be supplied with enough energy.
China and India are expanding, resources of water and oil are running
out. Catastrophes can be experienced nearly daily. Continents like
Australia muse about the first wars for water in ten years’ time.
Adelaide with more than 1 million of inhabitants is said to be the first
there running out of water. The government tries to meet the situation
by thinking about it right now. ( See “Der Spiegel, Edition 32, dated
6-8-2007, p. 48). North – and South Pole will say farewell shortly. A
big amount of isolated frozen CO2 is additionally getting loose. Polar
bears are killing and eating each other and their offspring or getting
drowned. Penguins and other zoo animals will become extinct. Along with
polar bears men will die. Their children will much likely be exposed to
wars for water. The earth is going to burn, hunger will expand.
Industries will be closing up at a high rate.
There are a lot of reasons why and how to react and give men a chance
to survive. We have been engaged for a couple of years with using plant
oil in combustion engines. We ourselves have driven cars and pick-ups
without any harm and for some years with the help of rape oil. Long
before the public took any notion of this technique we had completely
made use of the kind of sun energy in the tank. The usage of rape oil in
BHKW communal heating for the production of
electricity and water heaters can be enabled and is asked for at places.
The question of provision is the main point of our initial activities.
An extended survey came to the conclusion that companies such as
DaimlerChrysler were already running a Jatropha project for the
procession of bio-diesel in India with the help of the German
Development Service. Meanwhile the British Ministry of Economy and
Science had granted an amount for a co-operation with the University of
Kathmandu. We had a look at the project in Nepal and found out that
Jatropha already grew there everywhere. The University works intensively
about the project and is specialised in the procession of the oil fruit.
In some places Jatropha is used in the household, e.g. lighting, cooking,
or procession of further techniques. It is also taken for the production
of soap. Like all such projects this was closed down, too. There were no
more researches after the money had been used up. But everyone knows
that Saudis are 60% shareholders of DaimlerChrysler. Obviously they are
mainly interested in selling their mineral oil and less in improving the
world climate. The British project has been suspended for an indefinite
time, too. About 250000 sqms. of experimental fields are not being
harvested any more. One lonely professor and engineer enjoyed our
interest. Beside Jatropha we were shown various other oil seeds which
can be used world-wide in engines or cars and are the pre-condition for
high technical qualities. Jatropha is the beginning only. Its
cultivation complies excellently with the growing of other plants.
Procedure
The commercial development is practically going to start by 2007 –
2008.A central office and information centre will be opened. An ample
cultivation of fallow land without interfering in consisting
environmental structures is being thought of. Nepalese people harvest
and collect the wild growing precious oil fruit all over their country (along
the Jatropha Road from Kathmandu to Pokhara). They are then transported
to different locations and stored according to their region and quality.
The existing experimental fields deriving from the Jatropha project of
the British government are harvested. After that the most efficient oil
seeds are given to the farmers. Contracts of delivery are concluded with
the co-operatives and farmers for a 10 years’ term. Year by year further
layers are set, especially at places endangered by erosion and elsewhere.
It is only fallow land that is thus cultivated. Jungle regions will be
exempted from the program. There will not be any deforestation either.
The procession of oil will be done at special places where the oil is
filtered and refined. Trucks of German origin will be converted to
Jatropha transport. Power stations for the production of electricity.
Laboratories that may develop even more efficient techniques for the
purpose. The existing marketing system (petrol stations) and furthermore
shops and markets equipped for sales will be made use of.
Description
The Jatropha plant is a succulent bush of a height of up to 8 metres
which is rich in sap. Its branches that contain a milky, pink-coloured
sap are covered with a peeling bark. The five-parted leaves grown on a
15 cm long stem are of a length of about 15 cm and wide. The rest of its
leaves are tiny. The many-branched inflorescence mostly forms even heads.
Male blooms crop sepals of a length of 3 mms, as well as head-leaves
that are grown together half-sized and 8 anther leaves. Female blooms
crop sepals of a length of 5 mms. and free-hanging head-leaves of a
length of 6 mms. All the sepals and head-leaves are yellowish. The 3x 2
cms. big three-parted capsule-sized fruits grow black when ripe and
yield elliptic seeds sized 1,7 x 1 cm with a small caruncula. The seeds
contain fat oils of about 50%.
Spreading
The natural area of spreading of Jatropha is tropical America , the
Caribbean, and the range from Mexico to Chile. It was Portuguese and
Dutch seafarers who brought it to Asia and Africa.
Cultivation and Exploitation
Jatropha is robust, undemanding and little susceptible to illnesses. It
can well survive even long-lasting aridity by its succulence and is
hardly eaten by wild animals due to its poisonous sap. Therefore it is
an ideal plant in tropical countries for afforestation of barren
landscapes or reforestation of agricultural areas abandoned because of
aridity and erosion of the soil. It is also often put as a protecting
hedge around useful plantations. The area for growing Jatropha is
estimated world-wide to be between 2 and 3 million sqkms.
The oil yielded from the seeds is of high economical value. Before
refining it can be used as lamp oil or for cooking. It can also be
processed to soap and candles. The rest remaining after extracting the
oil becomes excellent manure. A special interest is laid upon the
processing of bio-diesel and above all coldly pressed vegetable oil
that saves poor tropical countries from importing expensive crude oil
and can directly be used in specially designed engines. Co-operation
between “Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit” (GTZ) and
Stuttgart-Hohenheim University pushes forward the growing of this plant
in Gujarat (India) within a research and production project. The fuel
produced there already complies wit Euro regulation Diesel – Norm 3.
Meanwhile World Bank support the growing of Jatropha curcas on 4
conditions that are all met in India:
adequate wages,
avoidance of imports of crude oil,
no use of fertile land,
little cost of transport.
One problem is still to be solved: That is the poisonous particles
contained in the seeds and in consequence in the oil that is yielded
from the latter. As they taste awfully hot and have a laxative effect so
that people will feel sick the oil is not good for consumption. Attempts
to get rid of the poisonous parts by means practicable in tropical
countries failed. But new hope comes up by the discovery in Mexico of a
different species of Jatropha curcas That either does not contain the
poison or in extremely little concentration only.
Being an ornamental plant with us in Europe Jatropha needs a warm and
very sunny location. The vegetation period lasts from about April to
October. When the leaves wilt in autumn the plant must be kept warm and
dry ( minimum 15° ). Is it watered in winter the plant can get rank and
spoilt.
Use
Due to its undemandedness the Jatropha curcas can be grown even in dry
savannahs. In spite of its modesty the plant produces bio-oil which as
having 60 octane ( rape has only 30 – 40) is one of the most effective
oils in the world. That is the reason why its growing is very promising.
It is Cameroon where the first commercially working plantations are run.
They are looked after by the German Fair Trade Fuel Shareholders
Company.
Jatropha glandulifera, flourishing plant.
Planning
World-wide accumulative process (network); international media and
campaigns; headquarters in Germany; information centre in Germany;
information centre Asia in Nepal.
Further researches; procession for optimising consisting systems of
vegetable oil; here Germany is considered forerunner for the development
of systems; transfer systems have to be developed with regard to special
conditions in a country.
Calculation
We expect to invest 100000 € for the collection and storage in the first
year. Furthermore we calculate 50000€ for research, information centres
and marketing. Further 40000€ each year to come for enforcement of
measures until 2018. A rest of the means may be reinvested in Jatropha
projects in a country ( for the farmers) or other international Jatropha
projects. We estimate a further 350000€ for the filtering technique of
oil mills, for crushing and conditioning facilities, devices with
sap-hose thread, suction pumps, filtration, and for fixed tapping
devices. The cost for refinery when needed is estimated at 100000€.
Everything mentioned above has to be brought into accord and to be
adjusted to the real needs by financial backers. The project should be
self-supporting the latest after a ten-years’-period. We think that it
should be possible to adjust the already existing knowledge by the
mentioned means to a standard valid in future. We expect Nepal to get
mostly independent of mineral oil within a period of 20 years. Backers
can profit from a commercialisation e.g. as a partner of an oil company.
The region between India and China is strategically of high importance.
Collection and storage 100000 €
Centres of information, marketing, research 50000 €
Enforcement until 2018 316000 €
Oil mill and production 450000 €
Totally 960000 €
Centres of information, marketing, research 50000 €
Enforcement until 2018 316000 €
Oil mill and production 450000 €
Totally 960000 €
Re-investment
Money not needed as well as profit should be invested at a percentage
in the infrastructure, e.g. schools, school ways, education, means for
social purposes and environmental transport.
Whenever you go by plane across the atmosphere including CO2 next time
and look down to earth you should bear one thing in your mind: The plane
would have been suitable for Jatropha oil and your flight could have
been friendly to our climate. But in case you have not pre-booked a
ticket to Mars yet, take care to invest in consisting infrastructures
on earth and bring your influence to bear!
We are ready. Please, do contact us!