Billionaires of Tomorrow - Ted Turner on the new generation of Billionaires.

[Lambo]

great video of ted turner.

When a billionaire talks, you listen!

enjoy!

FORA.tv - Ted Turner Looks at the World

[byzantium]

Great idea, but trying to force it via cap and trade, and copious amounts of scaremongering, won't work. Govt needs to provide the funding, then get out of the way. An innovative solar panel factory recently closed down here because of lack of cash.

The main obstacles here are governmental, not technological or entrepreneurial. Obama is trying to micromanage the economy. I predict that the first person to create a reliable ethyl alcohol internal combustion engine for cars, and find a way to sell people the moonshine to fuel them, will become a billionaire. The problem is that people think of booze as something to get wasted with, not to fuel your car with. Then there's biodiesel, which diesel engines were meant to run on. Right there, that takes care of your big trucks. Bingo, you've cut the need for 75% of our oil use.

The problem is a distribution system, largely. It's impossible to build an all new filling station network, and the established oil companies don't want to slaughter their cash cow. The Rockefellers and a handful of other ultrapowerful families control the distribution network, and they don't want competition from renewable fuels. We have to convince them to loosen their grip and try something new.

As for electricity, cooking, and heat, we need decentralization. We don't need to build solar farms, we need to put solar panels on every roof. We need wind turbines in every backyard-this will take municipalities and HOA's loosening up on beauty requirements, and some innovation. We need to junk the thirsty suburban landscape of bluegrass lawn and water sucking ornamental brush, and plant something better, like the "living lawns" that some people are trying. Again, it will take government junking beauty laws to happen.

When a woman in Sacramento tried to rip up her lawn in the face of a severe drought, she was slapped with an $800 fine. The city refused to let her do astroturf, too. It had to be a live lawn. After a public outcry, the city promised to review the law. While we need laws against blight, we don't need to be forcing people to plant lawns in a desert.

[Lambo]

true....but there are many great green ideas out there not restricted to only creating new energy, but also creating existing products which cut carbon footprints.