Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Vinod Khosla Does the Biomass Math

Renewable Energy World
By Dana Blankenhorn January 28, 2011

The same processes that agriculture reformers have long pushed on farmers for improving their land – polycultures, cover crops, perennials like switchgrass that replenish the soil – could be the key to the future of biofuels, according to venture capitalist Vinod Khosla.

In a wide-ranging talk on biofuels economics released over the last few weeks at Greentech Media, Khosla compares both the financial and environmental costs of various biomass processes, and their possible feedstock.

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