http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Brimstone/date/2008/4/22/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/Brimstone/date/2008/4/22/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/5E9974F5-7E5D-46BE-8463-B73F9CBF361B/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Brimstone/">Brimstone</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> We all heard the positive and negative of bio-fuel.<br/><br/>Refer here: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/C406051E-1283-4104-AEE4-24B553BDA3D5">http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/C406051E-1283-4104-AEE4-24B553BDA3D5</a>/ <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080421-biofuels.html" title="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080421-biofuels.html">news.nationalgeographic.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"> Many experts have also become concerned about biofuels' questionable green credentials.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"> However, some in the industry argue that there are biofuel crops that don't require agricultural land</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"> Oxburgh stresses that jatropha—a hardy plant from which his company, D1 Oils, extracts oil to make biodiesel—will not compete with food for land, nutrients, or water</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"> "Biofuels are getting a bad name because people are using food crops to produce them," said Oxburgh</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"> "But jatropha grows on marginal or degraded land where not much else will really grow.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"> High oil prices and concerns about <A href="http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/environment/global-warming">global warming</A> have fueled demand for renewable energy sources such as biofuels</div></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080421-biofuels_2.html" title="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080421-biofuels_2.html">news.nationalgeographic.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><I>Jatropha curcas</I>, one of 175 different plants, shrubs, and trees in the <I>Jatropha</I> family, produces seeds containing up to 40 percent oil</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"> The advantage of drought-resistant jatropha is that it can be grown primarily on nonagricultural or marginal land in Africa and</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">the plant grows along the rail line between Mumbai and Delhi</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/bio/" rel="tag">bio</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/fuel/" rel="tag">fuel</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/environment/" rel="tag">environment</a></div>http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080421-biofuels.htmlTue, 22 Apr 2008 15:20:34 GMT