Brazil Plans Commercial-Scale Jatropha Biofuel Project

An Airbus and TAM Airlines initiative to plant 75,000 acres of jatropha in Brazil is part of a plan to scale up the production of aviation biofuel to commercial quantities. Project leader JetBio has selected San Diego-based SG Biofuels to develop hybrid varieties of jatropha to be grown on abandoned...

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