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Venture capitalist and biofuel supporter Vinod Khosla wrote, "The time has now come for us to stop subsidizing corn ethanol" arguing that "subsidies should be a short-term, and not a permanent measure, used for five to seven years after a technology first starts scaling in order to allow it to ...

Vapor vs. vapor? That could be the case as super-secretive EEStor could potentially face competition in the ultra-capacitor space from Recapping. We've never heard of Recapping before, but the startup is backed by Khosla Ventures and recently received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department ...

Photo by Jenn_Jenn. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0.According to this tiny news posting, the cellulosic ethanol biotech team over at Coskata has raised $19.5 million in Series B funding (series B funds are made in the second round of investment in a private company). Whether that money ...

Khosla Ventures and BIOeCON have announced they have formed a new joint venture, KiOR Inc., for "further development and commercialization of the [Biomass Catalytic Cracking Process] technology as well as prepare for raising significantly more capital in the next two to three years." BIOeCON has ...