Yesterday I attended Vinod Khosla's presentation at PARC. It was very insightful. He is a hard nosed VC focusing on renewable energy and technologies which combat climate change. His mantra is "main Tech; not clean Tech". Alternative energy must be cheaper than fossil fuels after the initial startup investment. To win the climate challenge, the technologies must be designed with China and India in mind.
Here is a short list of companies to exemplify his philosophy.
- KiOR converting biomass into bio-crude
- Transonic Combustion improving the gasoline engine efficiency for dramatically better mileage and lower greenhouse gas emissions
- Calera - "dedicated to reversing global warming and ocean acidification by trapping the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, in the built environment, proactively reducing the level of free carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere."
- EEStor has developed a type of capacitor for electricity storage
- Algenol Biofuels an innovative algae to ethanol company
-jk
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