Awake at the Wheel

As concern about climate change and backlash against biofuels increase exponentially together, choices need to be made. Debates making news this week:

Vinod Khosla on “Environmentalists versus pragmentalists” The problem with exponential growth of electric vehicles:

Our least-cost electric power options–coal-fired power plants–are by far our most destructive and dangerous ones. Coal burning directly kills hundreds of thousands of people worldwide in particulate, sulfate and mercury releases, thousands of tons of radioactive emissions yearly, and emits over twice as much carbon dioxide per kilowatt-hour (kWh) as any other form of power generation. The coming costs from worsening droughts from Africa to Indiana, intensified storms, and rising sea levels will bring misery to billions. (ed: Not to mention the destruction of vital habitats as hydropower expands)