What happened to biodiesel from jatrofa?
Friday, 4 April 2008
Not only solar power, it is high time to try and popularise other non conventional forms of energy to reduce dependence on petrol, diesel or gas. Conventional energy sources are expensive and wasteful and create external dependency. But the alternative forms of energy such as solar power, biogas, wind energy and wave energy are environment-friendly and should be particularly suitable for Bangladesh.
Specially, the project to produce biodiesel from the fruits of the jatrofa plants needs to be pushed hard. It was reported sometime ago that government was planning to plant jatrofa plants in some reserved areas to raise a crop for meeting the total annual yields of diesel in the country. But no more has been heard about this project since. Some other countries are meeting their substantial fuel needs from biodiesel or diesel produced from jatrofa plants. Jatrofa plants can be grown in a massive way effortlessly in Bangladesh on fallow lands, by the side of flood embankments, highways and other places
The government should adopt appropriate policies without wasting time to popularise these alternative forms of energy. Even in a developed country like Britain, non-conventional sources of energy are substantially meeting the national needs of energy.
Quayuum Chowdhury
Eskaton, Dhaka
Specially, the project to produce biodiesel from the fruits of the jatrofa plants needs to be pushed hard. It was reported sometime ago that government was planning to plant jatrofa plants in some reserved areas to raise a crop for meeting the total annual yields of diesel in the country. But no more has been heard about this project since. Some other countries are meeting their substantial fuel needs from biodiesel or diesel produced from jatrofa plants. Jatrofa plants can be grown in a massive way effortlessly in Bangladesh on fallow lands, by the side of flood embankments, highways and other places
The government should adopt appropriate policies without wasting time to popularise these alternative forms of energy. Even in a developed country like Britain, non-conventional sources of energy are substantially meeting the national needs of energy.
Quayuum Chowdhury
Eskaton, Dhaka