Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Monday, July 27, 2009

British Petroleum, Alternative Energy and Lessons from China

Seeking Alpha
by: Dennis U. Atuanya
July 23, 2009

Oil major British Petroleum (BP), following a leadership succession reportedly cancelled its renewable energy program and withdrew from its joint venture with the company D1 on biodiesel production. The joint venture was set to utilize the oil crop jatropha (Jatropha curcas) as feedstock.
Coincidentally, a research report concluded that jatropha utilized a rather large 20,000 liters of water to produce a liter of biodiesel compared with 14,000 for the other biodiesel crops soybean and rapeseed. The report questioned jatropha's much-celebrated capacity to thrive on marginal soils, one of two planks (the other being its high oil yield) on which its allure for biodiesel production rests. Investment interest in jatropha, not surprisingly then, dipped slightly in the immediate aftermath of BP's actions.

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