Khosla says Environmentalist are barrier for Green Tech

News.com reports on a keynote by Vino Khosla at AlwaysOn Green conference.  And, one of the statements is environmentalists are a barrier.

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Khosla: Environmentalists, get out of way

By:  SEPTEMBER 27, 2011 11:02 AM PDT

SAN FRANCISCO--Vinod Khosla is famous for investing lots of money in green technologies. But when it comes to his role models, it's all Steve Jobs, not Al Gore.

Khosla was interviewed today at the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference here, where he espoused the idea of making big bets on potentially game-changing companies.

The controversial statement is environmentalists are clueless.
Even though Khosla got into green-tech investing out of environmental concerns, he said environmentalists have been a barrier to green tech because they assume that people need to pay more for cleaner alternatives to the status quo. They understand what the problems are, but when it comes to coming up with technology solutions, he said, "they don't have clue."