Biofuel Plant One Of Several Experiments On Board STS-130

UK-based Carbon Credited Farming (CCF) congratulated NASA on the successful launch of the Endeavour Space Shuttle today. It lifted off from Kennedy Space Center taking with it new scientific experiments, including a study of the Jatropha curcas plant, used for producing biofuel, to see if its breeding process can be shortened for commercial use.

Jatropha is a tenacious plant whose nuts are used to produce biofuels, which are increasingly being referred to as "Green Oil". It grows well in soil that is otherwise unsuitable for food crops and produces sustainable, renewable energy in contrast to inefficient and harmful crude oil products.

NASA's decision to experiment with accelerating the production process of Jatropha based biofuels underscores the validity and urgent need for the production and mass market implementation of biofuels into the marketplace," said Gregg Fryett, Managing Director of CCF. "Carbon Credited Farming has Green Oil plantations established in a growing number of locations across the globe and celebrates this development as further validation of our efforts to forge an alternative to harmful crude oil churned out by the big oil industry."

CCF says Jatropha-based biofuels have experienced many market validations in recent days, including:

• Toyota Tsusho Corporation, the parent company of Toyota Motor Corporation, is extending its holdings beyond automobiles to the substances that fuel them by investing in the cultivation of jatropha, which Toyota intends to refine into biodiesel.
• Daimler AG has started a new project for the cultivation of the biodiesel raw material Jatropha in the south of India. The company is supporting several village communities in the state of Tamil Nadu with funds and expertise from its already successfully completed research projects in Jatropha.
• Carbon Credited Farming (CCF) was recently featured in Bloomberg's New Energy Finance, the world's leading provider of industry information and analysis to investors, corporations and governments in clean energy, low carbon technologies and the carbon markets. The feature reported on CCF's joint venture with Crest Global Green Energy to develop jatropha plantations worth USD $60m in Mali and Senegal.

Carbon Credited Farming says it has many more developments in its pipeline that will continue to help cultivate and provide leadership to this growing sector of the energy industry.

FMI: www.carboncreditedfarming.com, www.nasa.gov