The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.

The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.

If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.

As for companies invested in the space - I think its important to distinguish between a good investment and a material climate change technology - you can have the first without the second, even in the "clean tech" space.

Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change.

Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.