Biofuels: Think Outside The Barrel

[2011rhythmdivine]

An alternative has been presented. Hopefully it'll be the solution to our problems.

[2011rhythmdivine]

An alternative has been presented. Hopefully it'll be the solution to our problems.

[cinndave]

Brazil makes the cheapest gasohol in the world, but Bush put a tariff on it to protect American corn farmers. I guess he's trying to avoid the irony of swapping foreign oil to foreign biofuel!

[cinndave]

LOVE this presentation! Everything about it was brilliant.

Here's another idea instead of that $40 oil tax: How about a gas tax inverse to the price of gas. So when gas prices go down, the tax goes up to stabilize pump prices and generate revenue. And when the gas price goes up, the tax rate automatically goes down to provide relief. this would stabilize the final price!

[mikkymax]

Some of the viewers above have used profane language. When some serious topic is going on. Please AVOID PROFANITY . It is of no use.

[i0null]

Another insightful presentation!

Definitely worth the watch.

Thanks google!

Google++;

[salvadoraceves]

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.

[salvadoraceves]

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.

[greyflcn]

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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[trakkaton]

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.

[rickiolsen]

This is stupid, they are using food for fuel.

[trakkaton]

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.

[soylentgreenb]

"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.

[trakkaton]

You are right that the energy is only 150% higher.

[MrFrankBullitt]

If this works, Vinod gets a Nobel.

[trakkaton]

After all the assholes who got one it would figure.

This fucker is pro-biofuel.

Biofuel is anti-enviroment.

It creates greenhouse gasses instead of reducing it and will create huge famines with millions of dead.

[soylentgreenb]

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.

[trakkaton]

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.

[anwarguy]

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

[mikkymax]

Thank you for the video 'Google'.I hope I am able to work with Mr.Khosla once. - varun