Investing In Jatropha

Jatropha Africa initial project in Ghana will take approximately 412,000 Metric Tons of CO2 out of the air each year. The technology is simple. Land, water, sunlight, nutrients and CO2 are the inputs. Through photosynthesis, the outputs are oil bearing seeds and oxygen.
We estimate that our machinery working on the farm and logistics, return 20% of the CO2 taken in by the plants, to the atmosphere. So our Ghana plantation will:

• Remove 412,000MT of CO2 out of the air each year
• Provide jobs for over 1000 people in rural communities in Ghana
• Bring into use, land in a semi arid area, which is not suited to food agriculture
• Reduce the use of fuels produced from crude oil

The average 35 Miles per gallon car running 15,000 miles per year uses 428 gallons of Fuel. It is widely accepted that 1 gallon of gasoline creates approximately 20lbs of CO2. Each Jatropha Tree absorbs approximately.006MT (14lbs) of CO2 annually. To have a carbon neutral average car, you would need to plant 580 trees.

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