Technology and the Environment

Description: Khosla answers no, but that there are improvements to be made.

Question:  Can technology fix the environment? 

Description: Technology can’t fix the environment, but technology can give us the tools to make the fixing of the problem much easier.  Give you an idea.  If you produce a renewable product that is cheaper than oil, which is my goal, there will be no need for oil – at least not to the extent we can scale that.  My goal is to scale it to the point where the world uses no oil.  And definitely the U.S. produces enough oil replacement in the U.S. alone to not need any oil.  Now most people don’t believe that is possible.  They don’t believe that’s possible because they don’t believe in technology innovation.  I believe in technology innovation, and I believe green will be cheaper.  Green will be multi-sourced.  Green will be much more competitive than oil is.  And it will not only be greener, but most importantly it will be cheaper.  That will solve not only our problem here, but solve India, and China, and Africa’s problems too.

Recorded on: 9/26/07