Today in Biofuels: Activists hurl insults at Vinod Khosla over new articles on biomass; new algae extraction process; gasoline prices to reach $4 per gallon by summer
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“Vinod you are still totally clueless” and “there will be pie in the sky by-and-by” were among comments hurled at billionaire investor Vinod Khosla in response to a second three-part series of articles posted at Grist. The second series focused on Biomass, including regulatory standards, “better agronomy for energy crops”, and “cellulosic ethanol yields”. Among dozens of responses, writers accused Khosla of turning “self delusion” on carbon cycles into a “mass delusion”, adding comments such as “cellulosic ethanol is such BS and that’s not just for the fertilizer.’