Just as an FYI, the harvest season in India has just concluded:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/indiabroadcast/20080114/r_t_ibn_nl_general/tnl-india-celebrates-makar-sankranti-as-3a4f8c1.html

And here's a great link on jatropha in general:

http://jatropha.de/news/Claims%20and%20facts%20on%20Jatropha%20curcas%20L[5].%20Wageningen%20UR-Plant%20Research%20International-Jongschaap%20et%20al%202007.pdf

Interesting article about Jatropha here:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKHKG7593720070912?rpc=92

A potential big hit to D1 today - the founder has resigned amid indications that D1 has severe liquidity problems, combined with share price deterioration.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/mar/10/oil.biofuels
"In the announcement issued by the company on Friday March 7, D1 stated that it is continuing to manage proactively its refinery assets which now represent only a small part of the overall business. The resulting 40% fall in the company's share price, particularly when set against the recent share fall, was overdone in relation to the news. As a consequence of the above, I have decided to resign as a director of D1"

This looks like a pretty severe blow to the partnership with BP, and potentially leaves D1 out of business if it cannot raise the £30m (as indicated in the article).

Honestly, it looks like the founder is jumping ship before the boat sinks. If this was BPs company to start converting Jatopha to biofuel, it may be delayed quite a while.

I'm shorting now.

I read this article about Jatropha, it talks about how a good harvest takes 3-5 years of cultivation. I don't know if it does anything, but I do think it is something to take into consideration. Just because BP harvested this year, doesn't mean that there will be a large enough crop to turn into oil. We will see.

Here is the link. Sorry, guess I should have previewed first.

http://www.thewoodexplorer.com/maindata/we1654.html