Wednesday, September 24, 2008
CNET Reports from EmTech08
Martin LaMoinca analyzes Vinod Khosla's keynote on renewable energy and a panel on "Green Transportation".
By TR Editors
Senior writer Martin LaMonica of CNET writes about Vinod Khosla, Founder of Khosla Ventures, keynote speech at Technology Review's Emerging Technologies Conference:
Khosla: Crazy clean-tech ideas yield breakthroughs
Famed investor Vinod Khosla is one of the clean-tech industry's most
vocal cheerleaders. But most of today's clean technologies fall short
of his 1-billion-car test.
"If it doesn't scale, it doesn't matter," says Khosla. "Most of
what we talk about today--hybrid, biodiesel, ethanol, solar
photovoltaics, geothermal--I believe are irrelevant to the scale of the
problem" of climate change...read more
LaMonica also analyzes a panel discussion on green transportation and one of its panelist, JB Straubel, the chief technology officer of Tesla Motors:
What road to greener transportation?
The route to a less polluting car looks more like a multipoint
intersection than a single superhighway, a panel of experts said on
Wednesday.
The auto and fuels industries are in the midst of dramatic
technological change, but it's still not clear how quickly which new
technologies will be adopted...read more
Tesla's
'Bluestar' to be all-electric family car
Tesla Motors has received many accolades for producing an
all-electric luxury sports car. But its long-term plans may hold its most
challenging task: making a mass-market electric car...read more
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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