And we said, well, that's not exactly being inspired by nature.

In 2009, I first heard about DlYbio.

Like those cars that run on corn.

Also, the salty ocean environment is corrosive to turbines.

So here's a question

Who would have thought that a database entrepreneur could transform California with legislation?

Transport ... We don't need oil anymore.

His background is in deep biotechnology.

That's the European average for new cars.

And so as people get healthier, they also get wealthier.

But no vehicles will need oil.

Why are we talking about microalgae?

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Yes. Here it is. It's the bicycle.

I worked for the Umbrella Corporation, in a secret laboratory developing eperimental bio weponary

Where would you start?

Saul Griffith did the numbers and figured out what would it take to get 13 clean terawatts of energy from wind, solar and biofuels, and that area would be roughly the size of the United States, an area he refers to as Renewistan.

Think about some of the incredible clean technologies we have today. Wind Electric amp Solar Cars Biogas

I really only see five that can achieve the big numbers.

But some day, some day, maybe it's going to work.

And this is an example of this paradigm shift.

What does that mean?

The scale of the challenge ahead Richard is talking about becomes clear when you look at bio fuels.

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The gray flesh encasing it is organic material. Some kind of bioengineered space suit.

That's why we call it a biosphere bio, meaning life and sphere, meaning circle.

According to Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution, stem rust has immense potential for social and human destruction.

Because, as we discovered, their technology is actually engineered in a biological manner to interact exclusively with their DNA.

And that doesn't mean that it's just, you know, ecologically irresponsible, it means that it can't continue.

Many of these buildings are incredibly beautiful, and also much more effective.

We talk about energy independence. We talk about hydrogen cars.

But, you know, the research that has occurred from HlV now has really helped with innovation with other diseases.

This is the field of biologic replacements, where we replace worn out parts with new, natural ones.

And maybe that makes you say, Hmm.

Those 125 to 240 mile per gallon equivalent autos can use any mixture of hydrogen fuel cells, electricity and advanced biofuels.

We've now formed a company called Amyris, and this technology that they're using can be used to make better biofuels.

They went to Oak Ridge. They took them around the lab and showed them everything.

A global crisis in agriculture.

If we take the overall turnover of the biocontrol industry worldwide, it's 250 million dollars.

For example, cellulosic ethanol, to power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet, this is how much land you would need.

I could make a contribution if I stop driving my car.

It'll actually begin to digest these wastes and, over the next five days, assemble them into biocomposites.

And that is the reason we want labelling laws.

Let's say the productivity of biofuel plantations is 1,200 liters of biofuel per hectare per year.

The length of the road doesn't matter, because the longer the road, the more biofuel plantation.