Like those cars that run on corn.

Also, the salty ocean environment is corrosive to turbines.

So here's a question

Who would have thought that a database entrepreneur could transform California with legislation?

Transport ... We don't need oil anymore.

That's the European average for new cars.

So all the pea kids will be yellow heterozygous.

For example, cellulosic ethanol, to power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet, this is how much land you would need.

But no vehicles will need oil.

Why are we talking about microalgae?

Those 125 to 240 mile per gallon equivalent autos can use any mixture of hydrogen fuel cells, electricity and advanced biofuels.

Yes. Here it is. It's the bicycle.

We have second and third generation fuels that will be coming out relatively soon that are sugar, to much higher value fuels

And this is a new version of our platform we're launching right now.

Saul Griffith did the numbers and figured out what would it take to get 13 clean terawatts of energy from wind, solar and biofuels, and that area would be roughly the size of the United States, an area he refers to as Renewistan.

Think about some of the incredible clean technologies we have today. Wind Electric amp Solar Cars Biogas

I really only see five that can achieve the big numbers.

They went out into the field to answer a particular question.

What does that mean?

The scale of the challenge ahead Richard is talking about becomes clear when you look at bio fuels.

According to Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution, stem rust has immense potential for social and human destruction.

What is that definition of the Third World anyway?

So what I'm telling you about is a system of integrated activities.

And that doesn't mean that it's just, you know, ecologically irresponsible, it means that it can't continue.

We talk about energy independence. We talk about hydrogen cars.

However, the main substitutes to oil face their own decline rates.

The world runs on fossil fuel.

The modern world we live in was shaped, to a large degree, by World War I, and then later by

And maybe that makes you say, Hmm.

Many economists believe that the free market will substitute one energy source with another through technological innovation.

But that's no longer true.

The algae that grow are in a container that distributes the heat to the surrounding water, and you can harvest them and make biofuels and cosmetics and fertilizer and animal feed, and of course you'd have to make a large area of this, so you'd have to worry about other stakeholders

Now, this is our second generations prototype.

And the problem with a traditional nuclear power plant like this is, you've got these rods that are clad in zirconium, and inside them are uranium dioxide fuel pellets.

We've now formed a company called Amyris, and this technology that they're using can be used to make better biofuels.

I need fuel.

Primary fuel?

Fuel supply?

Our fuel.

I could make a contribution if I stop driving my car.

Mine fuel

Primary fuel 2893 KRG.

What is he saying about the fuel?

Fuel cells.

We go from the trench warfare of the First World War to the Maginot Line of the Second World War, and then we go into the Cold War, the Iron Curtain, the Berlin Wall.