Cobalt CEO Rick Wilson: On butanol, and the case for successful biofuels
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Cobalt CEO Rick Wilson: On butanol, and the case for successful biofuels
Published: July 15, 2010
Can biofuels make a comeback?
To be sure, biofuels have been around a long time — almost a century. (At the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris, a clever engineer named Rudolf Diesel demonstrated his namesake engine with peanut oil. The rest, they say, is history.)
But in the age of cheap petroleum, biofuels could never really overtake gasoline as the fuel of choice. And now, the popularity of solar and wind power suggest that the entire discussion is moot.
Rick Wilson begs to differ. The CEO of Silicon Valley startup Cobalt Technologies says ethanol fuel has given biofuels a bad rap — and biobutanol is really the way to go.