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+<br>The current discoveries of a International Energy Administration [whistleblower](https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/ASX:MBT/Mission-NewEnergy-Ltd) that the IEA may have distorted crucial oil forecasts under extreme U.S. pressure is, if true (and whistleblowers hardly ever step forward to advance their professions), a slow-burning atomic explosion on future international oil production. The Bush administration's actions in pressuring the IEA to underplay the rate of decrease from existing oil fields while overplaying the opportunities of discovering brand-new reserves have the possible to toss governments' long-lasting planning into chaos.<br>
+<br>Whatever the truth, increasing long [term worldwide](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159352/mission-newenergy-debt-free-focused-on-biofuel-joint-venture-60797.html) needs appear specific to overtake production in the next years, specifically offered the high and increasing expenses of developing new super-fields such as Kazakhstan's overseas Kashagan and Brazil's southern Atlantic Jupiter and [Carioca](https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/MNELF:US) fields, which will require billions in financial [investments](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mission-newenergy) before their very first [barrels](https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/0cqd_rb) of oil are produced.<br>
+<br>In such a scenario, additives and alternatives such as biofuels will play an ever-increasing function by extending beleaguered production quotas. As market forces and increasing prices drive this technology to the forefront, one of the wealthiest prospective production locations has been totally ignored by financiers up to now - Central Asia. Formerly the USSR's cotton "plantation," the area is poised to become a significant player in the production of biofuels if sufficient foreign financial investment can be obtained. Unlike Brazil, where [biofuel](https://stocktwits.com/symbol/MNEL) is made mainly from sugarcane, or the United States, where it is mainly distilled from corn, Central Asia's ace resource is a native plant, Camelina sativa.<br>
+<br>Of the previous Soviet Caucasian and Central Asian republics, those clustered around the coasts of the Caspian, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have seen their economies boom due to the fact that of record-high energy prices, while Turkmenistan is waiting in the wings as an increasing producer of natural gas.<br>
+<br>Farther to the east, in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, geographical isolation and reasonably scant hydrocarbon resources relative to their Western Caspian next-door neighbors have actually mainly prevented their ability to money in on rising international energy needs already. Mountainous Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan stay mainly reliant for their electrical needs on their Soviet-era hydroelectric infrastructure, but their heightened requirement to generate winter season electrical energy has caused autumnal and winter water discharges, in turn significantly impacting the farming of their western downstream next-door neighbors Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.<br>
+<br>What these 3 downstream nations do have nevertheless is a [Soviet-era](https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos/overview?dealId=804419-65608) tradition of agricultural production, which in Uzbekistan's and Turkmenistan case was mostly directed towards cotton production, while Kazakhstan, starting in the 1950s with Khrushchev's "Virgin Lands" programs, has actually ended up being a [major producer](https://www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/shares/asx-mbt/mission-newenergy-limited/share-price) of wheat. Based upon my [conversations](https://www.abnnewswire.net/companies/en/31347/%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A9%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%97-Mission-NewEnergy-%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B3%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%94.html/4) with Central Asian federal government officials, provided the thirsty demands of cotton monoculture, foreign proposals to diversify agrarian production towards [biofuel](https://stocktwits.com/symbol/MNEL) would have excellent appeal in Astana, Ashgabat and Tashkent and to a lesser level Astana for those sturdy financiers willing to bet on the future, specifically as a plant indigenous to the area has already shown itself in trials.<br>
+<br>Known in the West as false flax, wild flax, linseed dodder, German sesame and Siberian oilseed, camelina is drawing in increased scientific interest for its oleaginous qualities, with a number of European and American companies already investigating how to produce it in commercial quantities for [biofuel](https://www.abnnewswire.net/companies/en/31347/%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A9%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%97-Mission-NewEnergy-%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B3%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%94.html/4). In January Japan Airlines carried out a historical test flight utilizing camelina-based bio-jet fuel, ending up being the first Asian carrier to explore flying on fuel derived from sustainable feedstocks throughout a one-hour presentation flight from Tokyo's Haneda Airport. The test was the conclusion of a 12-month assessment of camelina's operational performance capability and possible industrial practicality.<br>
+<br>As an alternative energy source, camelina has much to [recommend](https://www.investing.com/equities/mission-newenergy-ltd-company-profile) it. It has a high oil content low in hydrogenated fat. In contrast to Central Asia's [thirsty](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/51278-86) "king cotton," camelina is drought-resistant and immune to spring freezing, needs less fertilizer and herbicides, and can be used as a rotation crop with wheat, which would make it of particular interest in Kazakhstan, now Central Asia's major wheat exporter. Another bonus of camelina is its tolerance of poorer, less fertile conditions. An acre sown with camelina can produce as much as 100 [gallons](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1463471/000165495419013063/R31.htm) of oil and when planted in rotation with wheat, camelina can increase wheat production by 15 percent. A ton (1000 kg) of camelina will include 350 kg of oil, of which pushing can draw out 250 kg. Nothing in camelina production is squandered as after processing, the plant's particles can be utilized for animals silage. Camelina silage has an especially attractive concentration of omega-3 fatty acids that make it an especially fine livestock feed candidate that is recently acquiring recognition in the U.S. and Canada. Camelina is fast growing, produces its own natural herbicide (allelopathy) and competes well against weeds when an even crop is established. According to Britain's Bangor University's Centre for Alternative Land Use, "Camelina might be a perfect low-input crop appropriate for bio-diesel production, due to its lower requirements for nitrogen fertilizer than oilseed rape."<br>
+<br>Camelina, a branch of the mustard household, is native to both Europe and Central Asia and barely a brand-new crop on the scene: historical proof shows it has actually been cultivated in Europe for a minimum of 3 millennia to produce both grease and [animal fodder](https://www.energy-xprt.com/companies/mission-newenergy-limited-36048).<br>
+<br>Field trials of production in Montana, presently the center of U.S. camelina research study, showed a large range of results of 330-1,700 lbs of seed per acre, with oil content differing in between 29 and 40%. Optimal seeding rates have been determined to be in the 6-8 lb per acre variety, as the seeds' small size of 400,000 seeds per pound can produce problems in germination to achieve an optimum plant density of around 9 plants per sq. ft.<br>
+<br>Camelina's potential could allow Uzbekistan to begin breaking out of its most dolorous legacy, the imposition of a cotton monoculture that has deformed the nation's attempts at agrarian reform since accomplishing independence in 1991. Beginning in the late 19th century, the Russian government determined that Central Asia would become its cotton plantation to feed Moscow's growing fabric industry. The  was accelerated under the Soviets. While Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan were also purchased by Moscow to sow cotton, Uzbekistan in specific was singled out to produce "white gold."<br>
+<br>By the end of the 1930s the Soviet Union had become self-dependent in cotton