Replies to post #17731 on Blue Diamond Ventures Inc (BLDV)

[jraska]

Earny, please read the post, I realize 200 acres can not grow enough feedstock just as well as 35 acres can not grow 10 million chickens a week.

Read the post if you are interested of how Blue Diamond will have the feedstock in Belize..................

Get real.....................

[jraska]

Wow earny says BLDV will need 50,000 acres to produce enough feedstock for a 10 million gallon biodiesel plant.

Man that sounds like a lot - .....................

http://www.metric-conversions.org/area/acres-to-square-miles.htm

I say 50,000 acres is 78.125 square miles............

Yep, less than 9 miles by 9 miles, fairly small area for a country like Belize, if you ask me............

Like I said - GET REAL EARNY

Understand what you are saying....................

I would think 50,000 acres would be fairly easy to contract out with local independent farmers to grow the feedstock.............






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[pontalba]

earnest-no way it yields 200 gal/acre, except under ideal conditions.

[Sunshine101]

Earny, At the below site on Jatropha BioFuels economics they explain that the yields are actually over 2,200 gallons per acre. Based on this new yield BLDV only needs 4,545 acres to be dedicated to Jatropha by BLDV or other farmers. I'm ready to move on are you. See link below for support. I've included appropriate text for those who want a short cut.

"Jatropha stacks up nicely compared with other feedstocks, as soybeans and rapeseed have a relatively low oil yield compared with Jatropha — 375 kilograms per hectare for soybeans in the United States (280 gallons per acre) and 1,000 kilograms per hectare of rapeseed in Europe (740 gallons per acre) to 3,000 kilograms per hectare of Jatropha (2,226 gallons per acre) in India. Good planning, quality planting material, standardized agronomy practices and good crop management could increase yields"

http://www.jatrophabiodiesel.org/economics.php?_divid=menu4