Vegetable oil straight from the jatropha tree can also be used to replace charcoal or fuelwood, though this would require many Haitians to switch from traditional wood cookstoves to vegetable oil-fueled cookstoves, which was unpopular in a jatropha pilot project in Tanzania. Not to be forgotten, the fruit shells and hulls from the jatropha tree could be made into briquettes and used as a replacement for charcoal.
Gulay tuwid na langis mula sa jatropha puno ay maaari ding magamit upang palitan uling o fuelwood, bagaman ito ay mangangailangan ng maraming mga Haitians upang lumipat mula sa tradisyunal na cookstoves wood sa cookstoves may kinalaman sa halaman ng langis-fueled, na noon ay hindi sikat sa isang jatropha proyekto pilot sa Tanzania . Hindi puwedeng nakalimutan, ang bunga shell at hulls mula sa jatropha puno ma-gawa sa briquettes at ginagamit bilang isang kapalit para sa uling.