Herminio Teves, a former congressman of the 3rd district of Negros Oriental, has proposed the use of public land for Jatropha propagation to help ease the country's need for power and energy.
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The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has recently declared 14.2 million hectares of public land as alienable and disposable, and he thinks this could be used to plant Jatropha, a tree that could be used for the production of biodiesel. Teves calculates that if the public land is utilized for this purpose, it will yield around 99.4 billion kilos of seeds which could produce approximately 25 billion liters of Jatropha raw oil as bunker fuel to power the country's diesel power plants. He further avers that La Union, which has a public land of 111,646 hectares, will be able to power its 215 megawatt Bawang Diesel Plant, while Zamboanga del Sur, which has 316,648 hectares, can sustain the 55 megawatt Southern Philippines Power Corporation and 100 megawatt Western Mindanao Power Corporation.
Someone told me that in 5 years there will be no more land to sell, and the business of real estate will shift to leasing. It looks like he knows something I don't. Maybe licensed real estate brokers should start selling trailer homes, too?
I can live in my car, what about you?
Jon
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