MAKE HUGE PROFIT FROM BIOFUEL INVESTMENT IN NIGERIA ;OVER 3 MILLION HECTARES OF LAND AVAILABLE FOR JATROPHA CULTIVATION.

June 28, 2011 By

Article by Anaekwe Everistus Nnamdi

The slave trade era might have come and gone but one important lesson that it taught us was that at that time to be famous and rich one has to operate large hectares of land for agricultural production. The agricultural era saw the production of agricultural commodities like sugar cane, wheat, corn etc for human and industrial use.

Then came the industrial era which witnessed the establishment of so many industries to process products gotten from the agricultural and other sectors into finished goods. This era saw the emergence of John D. Rockefeller – Jnr. an American industrialist, as the world’s richest man. Next was the computer age or what is popularly referred to as the dot com era. This era created more millions that the two previously mentioned eras and saw the emergence of Bill Gate of Microsoft as the world’s richest man.

The world is presently in a transition state back to the agricultural era where farmer’s and agricultural produce processors would once more occupy there place of pride. This shift is being driven by the food and energy needs of the world population. Effect of global climate change {global warming} is already been felt with the catastrophic destruction of farms by floods, washing away of top layer soil and desertification. This has greatly affected the world’s food supply.

The rising cost of oil and other traditional source of energy coupled with the need to reduce the effects of global warming are intensifying the search for alternative clean fuel sources across the world.

Biofuels are a wide range of fuels which are in some way derived from biomass. The term covers solid biomass, liquid fuels and various biogases.[1] Biofuels are gaining increased public and scientific attention, driven by factors such as oil price spikes and the need for increased energy security.

Crop that can be processed into biofuel is referred to as energy crops and they include cassava, jatropha, algae, cotton seed, sesame seed, ETC.

For a nation that wants to develop, it most focuses on area where it has comparative advantage and surely Nigeria does has a comparative advantage in the agricultural sector especially in the production of biofuel.

From available findings, Nigeria’s record in this emerging is challenging from the figures given below

Australia 20 Million GallonsChina 530 Million GallonsBrazil 4.35 Billion GallonsUSA 4.3 Billion GallonsE U 250 Million GallonsIndia 80 Million GallonsNigeria Zero Million Gallons

In order to reverse these trend, the government has made available about 3 million hectares of degraded land for the cultivation of Jatropha. Improved cassava seedling for improved yields is now available from research institutes in the country.

With a population of over 140 million people and an estimated national population growth rate of 5.7% per annum ,an average economic growth rate of 3.5% per annum in the past five {5} years, Nigeria has a large market for biofuel. Also the investor can also take advantage of the trade liberalization in the West African {ECOWAS} market to sale there product.

The allocation of 3 million hectares of land for the cultivation of Jatropha, provision of improved cassava seedlings and the willingness of government to derive the maximum gain from biofuel makes Nigeria a preferred destination for biofuel investment in Africa.

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Anaekwe Everistus Nnamdi is a Business Development Consultant by day and blogs on investment opportunities in Nigeria by Night. He is the administrator of http://www.nigeriabusinessplace.com ,a forum focused on business in Nigeria.

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Question by pinkcloudinc: How hard would it be to turn soybeans into a biofuel?

My cousin’s farm grows 100 acres of soybeans annually I would just like to know what would go in to turning it into bio-fuels. Any help would be great I can’t find anything on it.

Best answer:

Answer by groingo
The problem is that the price of the soy beans has gone up over 200% in the past year and is pricing itself out of reach for BioFuel makers, that is what has happened in Washington State anyhow.

What do you think? Answer below!

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BioFuel Investment

June 27, 2011 By

Article by GSemop

Investments, with new technology fuels.We Need this!

Algae Fuel Making ——— Bio Fuel Making

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Algae fuel, is a biofuel from algae. Compared with second generation biofuels, algae are high-cost/high-yield 30 times more energy per acre than terrestrial crops) feedstocks to produce biofuels – although there is active research to reduce both capital and operating costs of production so that it is commercially viable.

With the oil price increases since 2003 and competing demands between foods and other biofuel sources, there is much interest in algaculture (farming algae) for making vegetable oil, biodiesel, bioethanol, biogasoline, biomethanol, biobutanol and other biofuels.

The production of biofuels to replace oil and natural gas is in active development, please see Http://AlgaeFuelMaking.Com focusing on the use of cheap organic matter (usually cellulose, agricultural and sewage waste)[4] in the efficient production of liquid and gas biofuels which yield high net energy gain. One advantage of many biofuels over most other fuel types is that they are biodegradable, and so relatively harmless to the environment if spilled.

The United States Department of Energy estimates that if algae fuel replaced all the petroleum fuel in the United States, it would require 15,000 square miles (38,849 square kilometers), which is a few thousand square miles larger than Maryland, or 1.3 Belgiums. This is less than 1/7th the area of corn harvested in the United States in 2000.(as we know Corn is not the answer)

Currently most research into efficient algal-oil production is being done in the private sector, but if predictions from small scale production experiments bear out that using algae to produce biodiesel may be the only viable method by which to produce enough automotive fuel to replace current world diesel usage.

Pass this along, this is the future for the planet

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Biofuels Creates Investment Opportunities in Alternative Energy

June 21, 2011 By

Article by Sara Nunnally

Barack Obama’s ambitious American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan will invest 0 billion in alternative energy over the next 10 years. But the biofuels market could double in three years. If you’re thinking ethanol, think again…

Jaws hit the floor… CEOs of major oil companies stand, shaking their heads, praying the ambitious goals of our new president are not met.

It could mean their jobs.

Exxon Mobil’s (XOM:NYSE) CEO, Rex Tillerson says it can’t be done. Yeah, he hopes… Here’s a list of what President Obama wants out of the energy portion of his 0 billion recovery plan:

Putting 1 million plug-in-electric hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) on the road by 2015 — cars that can get the equivalent of 150 miles per gallon. (Toyota’s already planning on leap-frogging GM in this department.) Creating 5 million new green jobs by investing 0 billion over 10 years to stimulate clean-energy infrastructure and manufacturing such as wind turbine plants and solar panels carpeting the nation’s rooftops. (Old manufacturing plants in the Midwest are already being refitted to make wind turbines.)Cutting U.S. oil consumption, within 10 years, by the amount currently imported from the Middle East and Venezuela combined.Requiring 10% of the nation’s electricity to come from renewable energy sources, like wind, solar, geothermal and biomass by 2012. By 2025, raise that to 25%. (Obama wants to double our use in the next three years.)Establishing an economy-wide cap-and-trade program that cuts U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by charging for every ton of carbon dioxide that goes into the sky from coal- and natural gas-fired US power plants. (There are already some exchanges trading carbon credits – in London and Chicago.)

But let’s talk about one option that can help achieve four of these ambitious bullet points: alternative fuels.

No, I’m not talking about ethanol… That fated fuel that’s been (unfairly?) accused of raising food prices and bankrupting farmers. Let’s get off the ethanol train. Even cellulosic ethanol, which has the potential to revolutionize the alternative fuels industry.

First a bit of history.

President Bush’s State of the Union speech on Jan. 23, 2007, dropped a bomb on the oil industry: it called for an annual 35 billion gallons of alternative fuels to hit the market by 2017.

This massive increase represented an annual growth rate of 70%. That meant 700% in 10 years. The only way this could be done is through huge investments in cellulosic biomass and other alternative fuel technology like gasification.

But cellulosic biofuel is very expensive, and companies are still working out the kinks. There are some pilot plants demonstrating its production, though mass production is still a few years off in the future.

No doubt cellulosic biofuel is going to the Big League – and soon – with an estimated potential of 100 billion gallons of production a year. A more realistic estimate is a production of 40 billion gallons a year, but we won’t see that right off the bat.

But there is a technology that’s already in use that can:

Provide an alternative fuel for vehiclesProvide an alternative fuel for power plantsReduce demand for imported oilReduce wasteReduce carbon emissionsThere is one company that can cheat the cellulosic biofuel cycle, and skip a huge part of the costs of producing biomass-based alternative fuels.

Here’s the process… It combines the renewable side of ethanol production – by using a renewable feedstock – with the flexibility of coal-to-liquid technology – by being able to create fuel for a number of different end uses.

Exit Zeus, Enter Pyrolysis

Pyrolysis sounds like some Greek god of fire, but there really isn’t any burning involved – at least in the classic sense.

One company, Dynamotive Energy Systems Corp. (DYMTF:OTC BB) uses pyrolysis to create a biomass-based carbon that can then go through the Fisher-Tropsch (coal-to-liquid) process to produce synthetic fuel.

In a nutshell, a feedstock goes into a boiler/reactor where it becomes instantly vaporized by the 450-500 degree Celsius fluid. The resulting vapor passes through a filter that collects char and feeds the gas into a condenser. Once the gas enters the condenser, the synthetic fuel falls into storage, and any leftover gas is returned to the boiler/reactor.

Nothing is wasted.

Why go through all this trouble to create a synthetic fuel that needs to undergo yet another process before it can be used in vehicles?

Biomass energy needs very large quantities of biomass to produce a significant amount of fuel or energy. The collection and transportation of all that biomass can be pretty expensive and time consuming. Pyrolysis cuts these costs enormously. It’s one less step the producer has to go through to create synthetic fuel.

Dynamic Dynamotive

So let’s talk more about Dynamotive. Its patented fast pyrolysis technology could be the next step in producing massive amounts of alternative fuels in a cost-competitive way, which the Obama plan needs in order to fulfill its ambitious goal of doubling use of alternative fuels in the next three years.

A bonus? Dynamotive’s pyrolysis is carbon neutral. Every product created gets used or reused, without any waste.

Dynamotive’s “BioOil” has a variety of uses without having to go through the Fischer-Tropsch process. It can be used for heat and power generation or as a partial replacement for fuels in industrial settings like boilers and kilns.

The company’s “Intermediate BioOil” (a mixture of BioOil and char) is more viscose and heavy, which is more efficient for heating needs and more cost effective when it comes to transportation.

Char is another product Dynamotive “harvests” from its pyrolysis, and it is a great substitute for industrial fossil fuels in power generation. For example, burning char and coal in a traditional coal-fired power plant reduces sulfur emissions.

Here’s the thing… All three products can be used to create alternative fuels for vehicles.

The company says, “Dynamotive views BioOil as a key intermediate in the conversion of biomass to hydrogen or [synthetic gas] since the volume reduction associated with the conversion of biomass to BioOil, Intermediate BioOil and Char leads to enormous reduction in transportation and storage costs.” Syngas can be used as a fuel all on its own, or as a feedstock for synthetic fuel production.

The Company

Expansion happened very quickly for Dynamotive. The company’s pilot BioOil plant is a 100-tonne-per-day plant in West Lorne, Ontario. It supplies Magellan Aerospace Limited’s 2.5 MW gas turbine with BioOil for power generation.

Back in the first half of 2007, Dynamotive expanded this plant from 100 tonnes per day to 130 tonnes per day. This success led to the development of another BioOil plant plan.

The new 200-tonne-per-day plant was constructed in Guelph, Ontario, about 45 minutes outside of Toronto. It will produce 130,000 barrels of oil equivalent every year, at full capacity. The Guelph Plant will also be modular, allowing for fast setup and easy expansion.

In fact, the Guelph Plant site has the capacity for four plants. Guelph may become Dynamotive’s new home for its state-of-the-art technical research and development function headquarters.

Let me show you what good alternative energy news can do for this company. Dynamotive saw a strong increase in both volume and price on Sept. 7, 2005. Prices went from .55 to .66 in seven months.

Anything strike you about that date? It’s less than a month after our Energy Policy Act of 2005 mandated 7.5 billion gallons of ethanol be blended into our gasoline stocks, and offered .5 billion in funding for alternative energy.

This recent call by President Obama for a doubling of alternative fuels in the next three years could have the same results. This company has been extraordinarily beat down over the past year, though the corner appears to have occurred.

The company bottomed out at .11 on Nov. 28, 2008. Since then, though, the company had doubled its share price, and could be set to double again in the next six months.

This company is one you shouldn’t sit on. Dec. 1, 2008, saw Dynamotive sign an agreement with China regarding the development of a new plant in Henan province… the first of Dynamotive’s plants to be built outside of Canada.

Could the U.S. be the next place to see a Dynamotive plant? I’m sure Obama would want a couple…

About the Author

As Editor of the investment advisory service Taipan Insider and Taipan’s Emerging Market Blog, Sara Nunnally brings a fresh perspective and an exciting approach to the world of international investing. Traveling to such countries as Vietnam, Morocco and Spain, Sara investigates for you the secret world of emerging and frontier markets that are ready to explode in profits.

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