Energy
- Studies On Biomass Utilization In A Rural India And Its Impact On The Environment
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Around 80% of the population lives in rural areas which primarily utilize biomass for their energy requirement. Depending on the agroclimatic zone by diversity and plant productivity the biomass utilization varies in different parts of the country. A large ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 15 2009 - 10:22am
- The Jatropha plant or shrub like tree can grow in a wide variety of climates
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The Jatropha plant or shrub like tree can grow in a wide variety of climates. Its seeds contain about 40% oil that can be extracted for energy as feedstock for renewable biodiesel production. Currently, the early stage Jatropha emerging market is growing a ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 17 2009 - 3:41pm
- DECENTRALIZED biofuel production using local flora on degraded or underused lands, has the potential to provide energy to half a billion people living in poverty in rural Asia.
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DECENTRALIZED biofuel production, or small-scale factories built on degraded or underused lands, has the potential to provide energy to half a billion people living in poverty in rural Asia. However the plant selection has to be based on the agroclimatic c ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 17 2009 - 8:13pm
- Growing Jatropha alongside millet and sorghum and fences for fuel are ideal for decentralised biofuel production.
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Growing Jatropha on fences for fuel project carried out by Social Policy Research Institute, Jaipur in collaboration with Humana People to People India with aid from World bank has resulted in vast awareness in Jaipur districts and over 2,75000 plants of ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 17 2009 - 8:25pm
- Silvicultural production systems and nutrient requirements of Jatropha curcas in prospect and retrospect
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silvicultural production systems and nutrient requirements of Jatropha curcas which can be summarized as below: • What are the best management techniques (planting practices, spacing, etc.) to promote the optimum growth of Jatropha to optimize for instance ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 19 2009 - 9:47pm
- Energy Efficiency- Let's Not Make The Perfect The Enemy Of The Good
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If you find it ironic that members of Congress take private jets to meetings on global warming or debate raising taxes to pay for government health care they get for free, a RAND study may warm your Republican heart. Except it means saying Europe did some ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 21 2009 - 1:00pm
- Biofuels“Unlike other renewable energy sources, biomass can be converted directly into liquid fuels, called “biofuels” to help meet transportation fuel needs. The two most common types of biofuels are ethanol and biodiesel.”
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Biofuels According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory [NREL] (see http://www.nrel.gov/learning/re_biofuels.html): “Unlike other renewable energy sources, biomass can be converted directly into liquid fuels, called “biofuels” to help meet transport ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 25 2009 - 9:05pm
- Euphorbia tirucalli L.:The plant grows well in dry regions or land that is not suitable for growing food. This plant can produce about 10 and 50 barrels of oil per acre by cutting near the ground.
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Euphorbia tirucalli L.: Family: Euphorbiaceae Genus: Euphorbia Species: tirucalli, insulana Common names: English: Indian tree spurge, Milk hedge, Petroleum-plant, aveloz, milk bush, pencil tree, Sehund, Thohra, and Konpal-sehnd. E. tirucalli is a succulen ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 25 2009 - 10:24pm
- CALOTROPIS PROCERA (Ait.) R.Br. Arka, an important drug of Ayurveda
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Botanical origin: Calotropis procera Family: Asclepiadaceae Arka, an important drug of Ayurveda is known in this country from the earliest time. It is mentioned by the earliest Hindu writers and the ancient name of the plant which occurs in the vedic lite ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 26 2009 - 1:04am
- Strategies For Improving Productivity Of Jatropha Curcas: A Bio-Diesel Plant
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Jatropha curcas grows wild in Udaipur division in Rajasthan. Chattisgarh state and several other nothern states of India Under the micromission programme of Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India under chairmanship of Professor A.K. Sharma and Dr Renu ...
Article - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 28 2009 - 12:18am
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