Driving Renewables, from the Lab to the Market

Published: Sept. 25, 2020, 9 p.m.

Environmental innovator Kristian Gustavson champions the efficacy of biofuels, and he and his team have the algae-fueled motorcycle land speed records and Baja 1000 chops to prove it. In Kristian’s words: “The concept of village stability operations—where you’re creating alternatives or other economies to combat illicit ones or to provide opportunities where they didn’t exist—they all come back down to education, renewable energy, agriculture, sanitation and clean water. Very simple things, and if people have that they can begin to incorporate them and take care of them… We need to energize that, and we need to do it with renewable and electric and push it forward. And if we’ve got to turn some heads by dashing down a desert wash at 100 miles an hour or setting some land speed records to start the conversation then I guess that’s something we’ll have to do.”