[VegChat] Watch "Biofuels: Think Outside The Barrel" on Google Video

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*Biofuels : Think Outside The Barrel
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-570288889128950913&q=Ethanol&pr=goog-sl>
* http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-570288889128950913&q=Ethanol

Back to ecology ...

A presentation (description below) that i really got into, discussing the
economics, a wee bit about the ecology, and the practicality of replacing
fossil fuel with pure ethanol. I ended up watching the entire hour although
10 minutes of it will give you a good idea of what he's talking about.
Fascinating.  Did you know Brazil is already more than half switched over to
ethanol, the technology is here today and it's very cheap. Did you know the
additional cost per car to allow pure ethanol use is around $30. Did you
know we'd all save 30% at the gas pumps if we were on ethanol, and that
likely prices could fall from there. It also seems using cellulose derived
ethanol avoids a lot of ecological issues the current corn derived ethanol
has and actually sucks carbon out of the air and pops it back into the
ground if you use the right plants.

*Description:*
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 and we
are privileged to have had him take time to talk to us about the tremendous
potential for ethanol's explosion into the market. Here are some recent
articles that might be of interest in relation to this talk: Vinod Khosla, a
Silicon Valley billionaire, who wants to save the world from oil
http://www.economist.com/people/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5655161 On the
Ethanol Bandwagon, Big Names and Big Risks
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/business/yourmoney/26etha.html?_r=1&oref=login
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