US Missing Out on Green Energy Profits? - John Doerr

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/18/GreenBeat_2009_Intro_and_Opening_Keynote

Venture capitalist John Doerr argues that environmental regulation is not a "job killer" but actually a huge economic opportunity. Comparing the US to Denmark, Doerr argues that America desperately needs to a make a segue into green industry.

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John Doerr was founding CEO of Silicon Compilers, a CAD software company and co-founder of the first broadband cable network, @Home.

He came to Silicon Valley in 1974 and joined a small chipmaker, Intel, just as they invented the legendary 8080 microprocessor. He worked in engineering, marketing, and sales, where he was a top-ranked sales executive.

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[m0nkeybl1tz]

Environmental Regulation->Companies Needing to Make Changes->Work Needing to Be Done->Jobs

How hard is that?

[gypsykorea]

To anyone who thinks investing in green is bad because it has to be subsidized by your taxes, I will introduce you to the auto-industry, farming, banking institutions, etc. I could go on but really you get the picture. You can't argue that what we have is a viable economy based on good investments.

[tuttt99]

Let me know how that green energy works out for you...

[suzhouhe]

Uh, yeah. I think I just said we should build nuclear plants. Like, twice. Because in the long run it's worth the cost of investing in the new technology, in the interest of long-term conservation and efficiency. Which is the same argument I was making for CFLs.

[moteintheeye]

Besides, coal plants have more radioactive waste than nuclear power plants. Where do you think Madam Curie got radium?

[mynameisbobtoo]

Your Data is flawed please reboot and then move away from the key board and Glenn Beck....

[MysteryManoLove]

YES WE SHOULD! Coal is dirty, once we bring the new nuclear reactors in, that don't release any radiation AT ALL, and it's more efficient than anything else we have. How about that for new technology?

[suzhouhe]

Coal extremely cheap, but it produces a great deal of mercury pollution (way more than CFLs, anyway). Going by your first comment, we should stop using coal. Going by your second, we shouldn't. Which is it going to be?

[suzhouhe]

Mirriam-Webster on sustainable: "of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged." In other words, it's the conservative approach. If tax dollars are going to be spent on anything, it should be for promoting long-term security of citizens. Environmental conservation is part of that.

[suzhouhe]

Yes, 4 to 5 milligrams of mercury is extremely small. Compare that to the CFL to the 500 milligrams used in an average old-school thermometer. Or, as I said, compare it to the pollution generated by overhauling our national energy infrastructure to run on nuclear power (which I think we should do).

[MysteryManoLove]

Yea because mercury in even small amounts isn't toxic right? You know people in Brazil panning for gold got Minamata disease from being on the second floor while the mercury vapors were coming from the first floor by burning the mercury off to get the gold? But the vapors are so small... And we ALL recycle these bulbs right? And you only use one of these bulbs for the 300 million Americans in each household for how many ever years right?