Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?

The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.

Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

I'm a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation.

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

Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in price to $35 a barrel by 2030. I'll put it on the record: Oil will not be able to compete with cellulosic biofuels. If you do it from food, the food will get so expensive you can't make fuel out of it.