Energy Future Coalition

The Energy Future Coalition is proud to have Vinod Khosla as a member of our Steering Committee. Khosla is the founding Chief Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems and a former General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He is one of the most fabled venture capitalists and personalities in Silicon Valley. A passionate advocate of alternative energy technologies, an end to oil dependence, and protection of the environment, he has testified extensively on Capitol Hill, is a senior advisor to Wall Street, and has developed a broad pool of clean energy investments with his own firm, Khosla Ventures. Along with fellow steering committee members Timothy Wirth and John Podesta, Khosla wrote Change the Rules, Change the Future. Some of his other recent writings and presentations can be found below.

Papers by Vinod Khosla

• Biodiesel: Good, Better, Worst or Why Trajectory Matters (pdf)
• Biofuels Trajectory to Success: The innovation ecosystem at work (pdf)
• Coal: Think Outside the Pits (pdf)
• "Food versus Fuel" or the "Salve for Africa"? (pdf)
• Green Investing Strategies (pdf)

Presentation by Vinod Khosla

This presentation can be downloaded or viewed in the embedded presentations below. The streamed presentation has been broken into parts for easier viewing. (In order to stream the presentation you will need the latest version of Flash installed on your computer)

Download: Mostly Convenient Truths From a Technology Optimist (ppt)

Part 1: Why we need a new vision

 

 

Part 2: The end of coal

 

 

Part 3: The beginning of concentrating solar power

Part 4: Advanced biofuels

 

 

Part 5: Bioplastics, plus background material