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College ... you have to remember that the 200 acres also has buildings and facilities.
They would be lucky to get 150 acres of production land.

I believe we have done some calculations here before on what it would take to operate a 10 million gal/year plant and it is at least 10,000 acres.

Nope ... the Little site in Belize will not produce the feedstock in sufficient quantities for anything more than a small pilot plant.

"The Jatropha plant has been cited as a high-yield source of biodiesel but such claims have also been exaggerated. The more realistic estimates put the yield at about 200 gpa (1.5-2 tonnes per hectare)."

Lets see 200 gallons per acre x 150 acres = 30,000 gal/yr.

For a 10 million gal/yr plant you would need:

10,000,000 / 200 = 50,000 acres.

Sorry but I don't see a 50,000 acre plantation being set up in Belize.
From the CIA Factbook on Belize.
Land use:
arable land: 3.05%
permanent crops: 1.39%

Environment - current issues:
deforestation; water pollution from sewage, industrial effluents, agricultural runoff; solid and sewage waste disposal