Small Biofuel Farm Bears Fruit

SUBHEAD: If the vision of farm owners in Hawaii becomes reality, acres of now-fallow sugar cane land will be growing crops again - jatropha plants for bio-fuel. Image above: A jatropha plantation in India claims it produces diesel fuel at 150 gallons per acre per year. From (http://www.svlele.com/jatropha_plant.htm) By Craig Gima on 8 March 2010 in the Star Bulletin - (http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20100308_small_biofuel_farm_bears_fruit.html)
But rather than producing food, the land would be used to grow fuel oil.

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