Biofuels: Think Outside The Barrel
Google TechTalks
March 29, 2006
Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla is a venture capitalist considered one of the most successful and influential personalities in Silicon Valley. He was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and became a general partner of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in 1986. In 2004 he formed Khosla Ventures.
ABSTRACT
On Wednesday, March 29th, by invitation from our co-founders and CEO, our special guest, Vinod Khosla, visited Google to deliver a tech talk about the emergence of ethanol as a viable, market ready, and competitive source of renewable energy. His presentation has been making huge waves in the investor, policy, and business communities…
Duration : 1:8:42
September 7th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Some of the viewers …
Some of the viewers above have used profane language. When some serious topic is going on. Please AVOID PROFANITY . It is of no use.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Another insightful …
Another insightful presentation!
Definitely worth the watch.
Thanks google!
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September 7th, 2008 at 12:32 am
i applaud khosla …
i applaud khosla for his concern of the environment and the global economy, but not without considering his own personal financial incentives. good idea in the sense that it can reduce dependency of fossil fuel, but it is no replacement; one is a heterogeneous solution that can provide great efficiency when partnered with hybrid technology, while the other is a volatile compound whose impact is not yet clear.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:32 am
i applaud khosla …
i applaud khosla for his concern of the environment and the global economy, but not without considering his own personal financial incentives. it is a good idea in terms of reducing dependency on fossil fuel, but it is no replacement; one is a heterogeneous solution that can provide great energy output when partnered with hybrid technology, while the other is a volatile compound whose impact is not yet clear.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Yeap.
Khosla is …
Yeap.
Khosla is pretty well known for putting fake information about biofuels on the loudspeaker.
Without even watching this, I can know that he’s gonna say
1. It takes less energy to produce ethanol than oil
2. Brazil gets almost all of their fuel from ethanol.
Just sad that Google is sitting by allowing that to happen.
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September 7th, 2008 at 12:32 am
You are right that …
You are right that the energy is only 150% higher.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Hunger is a problem …
Hunger is a problem of rights, that’s accurate, but I was talking about the future.
Up to now we have overproduction of food, but soon the demand will be higher than the production. Then a different kind of famine will appear.
It’s fine that prarie grasses demand little water, but Brazil is burning the rainforest to get farmland for biofuel. As long as the demand exists.
And I’m against cattle. Going vegetarian will be the last bumper we have when food and water gets scarce.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:32 am
That’s assinine.
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That’s assinine.
Hunger is mostly caused by people’s inabillity to entitle themselves to that food; not because of some shortage.
In the US alone there are 50 million acres of land that farmers are paid NOT to grow things on.
Mischantus and assorted prarie grasses demand very little water, fertilizer and sequester carbon.
You’ll want to stop growing corn, it’s ruinous for the environment and land it is grown on and it’s not for food. It’s cattle feed.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:32 am
“For example: …
“For example: Petroleum has TWICE the energy ethanol has. He talks about 25%.”
Ethanol contains 23.5 MJ/l and regular gasoline contains 35 MJ/l. That’s a 33% less energy.
Like diesel fuel, ethanol is significantly more efficient than gasoline because you can compress it significantly more. That’s likely how he arrives at that number.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Cheaper fuel: Wrong …
Cheaper fuel: Wrong, because the calculation is wrong. If cheaper fuels matter, why is everyone buying 20 liter-SUVs? Where’s the 1-liter-car? It’s being how many decades now?
Energy security: BS. You can have oil. But you must be willing to pay for it, not loot it.
Farm incomes: For great land owners only.
Enviroment: Check out what REAL enviromentalists (not Gore&Co) are saying about the CO2 bottom line.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:32 am
This guy is working …
This guy is working for some dark lobby.
He’s bullshitting the whole time. For example: Petroleum has TWICE the energy ethanol has. He talks about 25%.
Fuckin liar who wants to burn some more of the remaining rain forest.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:32 am
After all the …
After all the who got one it would figure.
This is pro-biofuel.
Biofuel is anti-enviroment.
It creates greenhouse gasses instead of reducing it and will create huge famines with millions of dead.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:32 am
This is stupid, …
This is stupid, they are using food for fuel.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:32 am
If this works, …
If this works, Vinod gets a Nobel.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:32 am
After watching this …
After watching this I bought a Flex Fuel Gold adapter to convert my regular-gasoline car to be E85-compatible! It cost 369$ and is easy to install. Plus you get tax rebates to make it practically free. We have an E85 station in our town so it’s pretty nice.
peace 2 u
September 7th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Thank you for the …
Thank you for the video ‘Google’.I hope I am able to work with Mr.Khosla once. - varun