Production of human food from Jatropha and other biologicals

A method for producing humanly-edible food cake from a feedstock comprising water, yeast, fungi, amylase, sugars, and a biological containing a first toxin that can be rendered harmless by heating and a second toxin that is soluble in alcohol, said biological selected from the group consisting of algae, castor beans, jojoba beans, Indian beech seeds, and Jatropha curcas L. seeds, comprising:

• providing a feedstock,
• providing a source of water,
• providing an air-tight fermenting tank with a stirrer, said stirrer driven by a motive source, said fermenting tank being arranged to anaerobically ferment said feedstock into a mixture comprising at least components selected from the group consisting of mash, ethanol, water, and said first and said second toxins,
• providing a still with a first heater,
• providing a first container arranged to receive distillates from said still,
• providing a second container with a second heater,
• adding said feedstock to said fermenting tank,
• periodically energizing said motive source so as to disperse the contents of said fermenting tank,
• permitting said contents of said tank to ferment and form a mash, thereby producing ethanol that extracts said second toxin from said mash,
• after fermentation, moving said water, said ethanol, and said second toxin from said fermenting tank to said still and moving said mash to said second container,
• energizing said second heater and heating said mash in said second container to a temperature sufficient to decompose said first toxin, and
• energizing said first heater on said still, thereby distilling said ethanol from said water and causing said ethanol to be conveyed into said first container,
• whereby said mash is delivered to said second container and heated using said second heater so that the amount of said first and said second toxins in said mash is reduced sufficiently to render said cake safe for human and animal consumption, and alcohol will be produced.

An apparatus for producing a humanly-edible food cake from a feedstock comprising water, yeast, fungi, amylase, sugars, and a biological containing a first toxin that can be rendered harmless by heating and a second toxin that is soluble in alcohol, said biological selected from the group consisting of castor beans, jojoba beans, Indian beech seeds, algae, and Jatropha curcas L. seeds, comprising:

• an air-tight fermenting tank with stifling means, said stirring means driven by a motive source, said fermenting tank being arranged to anaerobically ferment said feedstock into a mixture comprising at least components selected from the group consisting of mash, ethanol, water, a first toxin that can be rendered harmless by heating, and an ethanol-soluble second toxin,
• a still having a first heating means arranged to heat the contents of said still,
• a heating container having a second heating means arranged to heat the contents of said container,
• said fermenting tank further including a normally-closed valve and a first conduit for delivering said mash to said heating container when said valve is open,
• a second conduit with a normally-closed valve that connects said fermenting tank and said still, thereby permitting the liquid component in said tank to flow from said fermenting tank into said still when said valve is open,
• said still being arranged to distill ethanol from said liquid component,
• said heating container being arranged to heat said mash and said toxin, thereby rendering said toxin harmless and producing said cake,
• whereby said apparatus will be able to reduce the amount of said first and said second toxins in said mash sufficiently to render said cake safe for human and animal consumption and also produce alcohol.