Bill Gates and the Quest for Sustainable Energy
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- "We need an energy miracle," says Bill Gates in this interview with Atlantic editor in chief James Bennet. "That may make it seem too daunting to people, but miracles in science are happening all the time." So, what are the solutions to climate change? Gates has pledged to invest $2 billion in new alternative energy technologies. In this discussion with Bennet, he extolls the necessity of investment in vast and varied technologies to change such a massive infrastructure quickly. Read more about Gates's commitment to moving the world beyond fossil fuels in the November 2015 issue of The Atlantic.
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I hate background music. Let the voices be heard!!
Solar panels have at best 20% efficiency. However, when combining efficiencies for the battery chargers, batteries, and inverter the overall system efficiency is 15% at best. System efficiency drops about 1/2% to 1% per year, meaning that the overall maximum system efficiency is 10% or less after 10 years. That is horrible return on investment. After 20 years, the efficiency decreases to a few %.
I love how the music is super loud
Inorite
You suck at sarcasm.
yes, terrible music
Hydrogen, byproduct of Natural gases or electrolysis from water, could be one choice. No CO2 emissions.
Doesn't fit with the agenda.
Is there a way to use carbon molecules for energy that would break them into non harmful emissions safe for the environment?
places with wind will use wind places that can sustain hydro/geothermal will use that but nuclear is the best expessially if he finds out how to use natural or depleted uranium in one then he will become the first trillionare
2:57, le wild 3D music starts.
*Removes headphones/pauses video 4 times to check*
For real?
Geothermal energy is great option for some countries
Why did he bale on the Aquion battery after it started to sell.
Pull option ok
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I hate when people compare now to previous times. Today. The world is WAYYYYY. Flippin. Different.
Probably about half of the world can communicate with one another and know everything about the world in one instant.
It is so different. We should be able to make change way quicker no problem.
When we inevitably go fully sustainable and use geothermal, biomass, wave energy, tidal energy, solar and wind, cheap stable power will be the norm by ...
1: Using many renewable sources as listed above as even on a windless night the others are unaffected.
2: Using suitable energy storage like pumped water, liquid air, batteries and biomass etc.
3: Trading energy over large distances, across continents then eventually the globe. This would even out supply and demand. This is one application that capitalistic free market economics would be most helpful by quickly managing demand and supply.
thank you I will use this in my class - well put
Your ideas are invalid and all have been debunked by cost benefit scientific analysis.
@@elrolo3711 So has nuclear power. It's just too expensive. So is off shore wind....For now!
It's just finding the right blend of environmental impact, cost, and efficiency. It's difficult to find a solution that meets all that criteria. Batteries, small foot print, efficient, but expensive. Pumped hydro involves a lot a land development and excavation, but is cost effective, and not quite as efficient. We need to find a solution, with a levelized cost of ~$.02 US per kWh, that is reasonably efficient. If a less efficient solution is used, there needs to be more generating capacity.(more, larger turbines, more solar)
Looked in comments and now can't not hear music
It's important to remember that engineering achievements occur by trial and outcome... keep trying. If you know how Microsoft came to develop MS-DOS you understand how surprising outcomes play an unpredictable role in technology. My phrase would be "we need an energy surprise."
how can I get to that place too
Why does he keep dancing around the solution, the one he's developing in China. The same one dozens of other companies are developing all over the world. Nuclear, it's the only possible energy source that meets the requirements he set at the beginning of the interview.
Nuclear would work, if not for the cost, and the danger. A computer glitch is a nuisance. In a self driving car, it kills people. a computer glitch in a nuclear facility annihilates entire populations. Nuclear, like air travel, is generally safe, but if something goes wrong, it's an absolute disaster. Electricity is vital, but not worth betting that many lives on. I'm more comfortable with an occasional nacelle fire, or ice throw. The real solution is cost effective, efficient electrical energy storage. If someone actually perfects nuclear fusion, that would be the ultimate solution. That would render just about every other renewable source obsolete. I think nuclear fusion is far enough away, that there is a nearly certain future in wind and solar, if we could find a way to store energy at grid scale.
Nuclear power is saft
@@vincentrobinette1507 Nuclear plants have several redundancies to prevent accidents. Especially in newer gen3 designs compared to the older gen2s which are now being phased out.
Plus the death tolls from the few accidents we have had, have been considerably lower than the amount killed from air pollution from coal energy.
In fact if you look at the mortality rates vs energy produced. Nuclear comes out on top as the safest form of energy we have.
Only accident that has had any significant death toll was Chernobyl. And most of those deaths where because of Soviet incompetence.
Second one Fukushima had zero deaths from direct radiation exposure. Most of the deaths where because of the evacuation. Mostly stress related deaths. Like old people having heart attacks and such. And there where no significant increase of cancer cases in the years after the accidents. And the best estimate they can give is as little as zero to as many as 400 could maybe have died from cancer related deaths. In comparison the earthquake that caused the accident killed far far more people (18.000).
And the only accidents so far has been with older Gen 2 reactors which where built in the 60s.
Gen 3 reactors as i mentioned have far more saftey measures. Many of which are passive compared to active ones with gen2s.
@@ParasiteXX The only problem with nuclear is not so much safety, as up front capitol cost. Right now, nuclear is so expensive, that it takes ~5 decades, to generate enough electricity to pay for itself, at any reasonable electrical rate. Many who would invest in nuclear power simply won't live long enough, to get the return on investment. Wind turbines, if located in an area, where they can produce an average of 30% or more of their rated power, can pay for themselves in as little as 3 years. Thus, much more attractive to the typical investor. Don't get me wrong: Nuclear power will pay for itself, but, at age 57, it might not happen in my lifetime.
Solar, particularly photovoltaic, is less than 1/10 the cost that they were even a decade ago. With wind and solar becoming so inexpensive, its less expensive to develop them, than even coal or natural gas, let alone nuclear. The only things more expensive than nuclear, is electrical energy storage,(a necessity with intermittent renewable sources) and off shore wind. On shore photovoltaic is cheapest, followed by natural gas, then on shore wind, then coal, then nuclear, with off shore wind, being the most expensive. I don't include electrical energy storage, because that's quite expensive right now, and also adds to the cost of the wind and solar. Electrical energy storage is more of a "bank" than a source.
@@vincentrobinette1507 Problem with solar and wind is the massive land footprint required to even remotely match the same output from nuclear energy.
ref: czcams.com/video/zc7rRPrA7rg/video.html
There is a huge environmental impact on wildlife as land has to be cleared to make room for the solar panels. And not to mention the effect wind power has on bird life.
If the point of renewable energy is to save the environment, then it's doing a piss poor job at that.
ref: czcams.com/video/N-yALPEpV4w/video.html
And regarding nuclear costs. It depends a lot on type of reactor, how standardized and modular the design is, etc.. on how long before it becomes profitable.
It can be as little as 2 decades, or maybe even 5 decades as you say if it's a newly developed reactor design. Like EPR for instance which has hit a few early construction snags which caused delays and costs to ramp up. But as it gets mroe developed, it also gets cheaper and easier to build over time.
ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)
Great video apart from the nursery rhyme music
No one ever talks about solar thermal generators. They even generate electricity at night.
Never heard of them-I’ll look them up.
give us a link
@@robinsss check out ivanpah:
www.brightsourceenergy.com/ivanpah-solar-project#.XHXz4YhKi0o
it focusses light onto a central tower which contains molten salt, thats extremely hot,
that gets stored in a storage vessel, and when its needed it is used to heat water, create steam, and drive a steamturbine.
its like a thermal battery basically
They were a good solution, but photovoltaic panels are so inexpensive now, that it's more cost effective to pair a photovoltaic array with a battery. Photovoltaic panels work on cloudy days, where as heliostatic mirrors need the sky to be clear enough, to cast a clear shadow, or the light is just too defuse, to focus on the collector. With panels working on cloudy days, you can actually get more solar electricity per acre, than with concentrated thermal solar. Right now, photovoltaic arrays are less expensive per installed megawatt, than heliostatic thermal solar. 2 decades ago, concentrated solar was the clear winner. Now, not so much.
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Solar PV now 4.8 cents/Kwh. in Alberta Canada that's cheaper than methane.
Apples to Oranges...
What I wonder is why doesn't he compete with Terrestrial Energy??? (like we really don't know why).
Don t mix energy and temperature changing. No one can statistically prove that human impact on weather temperature is 100% related. Too much variables, even multivariate statistics struggles when modeling this question.
One fundamental problem is politics, ie how researchers will be paid until the breakthrough is accomplished...
Many Windows
It's 2019 now. The biggest delay to transition is the attrition of existing generation assets. It's most economical, to allow the existing sources finish their cycle life, then, replace them with the sustainable sources. Many of the newer power plants have decades of useful life left in them, at least 3 decades or more. There is a lot of money invested in what we're using now. We need to get the return on those investments, and make enough profit to invest in sustainable sources. It will take at least until 2045 or beyond, to phase out the old, and commission the new.
Like you even know. Btw, kmart called your late for your shift.
I will say this in every vid about climate I come across untill people realise I am right and actually do it. PLANT MORE TREES!
Sure you are right and it would help a lot but that alone is not a solution. With rising global populations and energy consumptions increasing exponentially we need these alternative energy innovations and fast.
I admire Bill's new focus on these issues, good to see his wealth being put toward the greater good.
Trees do a fantastic job of sequestering carbon, until they die and decompose, or, burn. Until then, they're a near perfect solution! Just hope that the "NYMBYs" complain that they can't see the forest, because of all the trees blocking their view!😆🤣😂
What is really the definition of sustainable energy?
I think a sustainable energy supply is one that when it is first started that it can constantly Self Regenerate.
I'm sure one of you clever folk could remove the music from this video for us and just keep the audio
Five things are all that is required, tidal turbines along the coast, liquid salt solar arrays in New Mexico and Arizona, additional pebble nuclear plants where fresh water is available and extending our electrical infrastructure to reach the new power generation stations.
The answer was corona virus, clear skies , and nature looking radiant
Lose the muzak. Distracting.
Ola.
I have brilliant idea of power generation, which doesn't emitt the green house gasses and can generate 24 hours power much safely
Nuclear
Edison generator and dynamos easily replace fossil fuels and nuclear power. A dynamo uses the outlet or generator to produce more current than is used. The current is not consumed by the Dynamo but the dynamo can produce ten times more current using the atom's of iron and the over 200 electrons to create more magnetic field that coils of copper wire can pickup. The brushless motor as a generator is as efficient as the permanent magnet motor as a generator. They need an inverter and transformers like windmills or solar panels but the power is continuous peak power like fossil fuels or nuclear
But zero fuel and zero pollution power plants. Publishing to build is wall that has not been scaled.
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The music on this video drove me nuts
Creation of energy isn’t the problem the real problem is storing it we need to incorporate hydrogen into this equation
Sustainable Cheap Energy is unachievable in Australia until we get rid of the Fools in Canberra whom wont move forward.
Solar start ok
GATES YOU SHOULD ONLY DRINK THE SO DELICIOUS WATER YOU PRESERVE in such a clever way 👍!
Thorim based Nuclear is safer.
If only more people and countries would slow down their polluting activities and seriously pay attention and funds to heal the ecosystem and find less polluting systems of energy. The more people take Climate Crisis seriously the more people like Bill Gates can succeed in their efforts to save humanity and the ecosystem for our children.
Nothing going to totally replace fossil fuels. Some can only reduce the dependence on fossil. Sustainable energy is hard to achieve. Because our economy is so complex that we need instant and reliable energy. Meanwhile today renewables contribute about only 4 % of world's primary energy consumption. Reduce your material and energy consumption that's the only way forward.
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he had given some most important points, Thank you Sir.
Molten Salt Reactors/Thorium!
If you want to find the solution...look to the problem.
My engine can get us to 2050 as soon as the engine is installed. 75% gone... leading to NH3 via nuclear, solar and wind...zero carbon, ASAP.
If sustain your own body weight I'll believe you!
They don't want you to hear their bullshit. The Lies are legalistic wording to screw us all with United Nations, "Sustainability, and Artificial Intelligence"...their intelligence isn't real either. The PEOPLE are awake, CREEPS at AES. This is surveillance monitoring and Murder by fire for those with California Smart Meters. BTW when I called customer service at AES this morning, there was none. Only disorder and GENOCIDE will come from United Nations Agenda 21 "READ IT"... GENOCIDE of 95% of Humanity. Read it... United Nations Agenda 21- "No more than 500 million slaves on the planet at a time"... THEIR WORDS not mine. OH well ok I did Paraphrase the SLAVE thing. THE GENOCIDE IS REAL... read it.
@@rodneycaupp5962 lay off the drugs
Do you guys have to have the patronising children's music on?
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THIS VIDEO IS AWESOME
NUCLEAR!!!!!!
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Billy is a part of the 1% that uses 50% of all the worlds energy. He knows what a power bill looks like lol
Good incentive for him to make cheeper energy for him self. Why pay more for fossil fule when green has the potential to be cheeper and save billions of dollars?
@@James-zh6nf would you like to show me a Green private jet? What about a Solar $100 million dollar Yacht? I don't think you get it. The whole Green movement is a con. Take Solar for instance. My Power grid provider charges $1 a day supply fee. My solar panels produce 12Kw a day average. Most of that current goes to the grid and I get paid 8 cent a Kw but buy it back at 30 cents a Kw. Someone is making a killing - it ain't me. Only the Tesla Tower will provide cheap green energy but big Oil ,Coal & Gas will have none of the nonsense.
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Eu gostaria que o Bill Gates me desse de presente de Natal um computador bem moderno.😊Eu o amo e admiro muito.
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The world needs my invention called a mechanical piston engine which produces no pollution whatsoever and will solve the world’s energy problem forever. It changes potential energy into kinetic energy without the loss of potential energy. Amazing.
Can you throw more light on this ? Sounds interesting!
@@admiral001x check out world breaking news mechanical free energy, posted on CZcams.
@@davidrussell3610 alright,will do thanks
@@admiral001x Got the schematics drawn up. Just have to make another video of it and post it.
2 bil cool now please stop cloths shopping at Walmart treat yourself...
4:10 Im saying this since 10 years ago, godamned stupid rats, we need to think more forward. Its almost to late now
Errrr wind turbines solar panel and batteries.
Wind turbines solar panels and batteries
Wind turbines solar panels and bateries.
And electrify everything - i mean every thing.
And admit record breaking CO2 to make them and recycle them. Thanks
@@tiendoan1333 I think you mean emit not admit. Fucking moron
Bill Gates Sir my one of the hudge my crazy mistakes.I am a fan for previous years.Sir I am very sorry.Sir I am responsible for these mistakes.
Please Sorry.🙏
got the silver bullet (invention) to the climate change, but not the gun (money to patent and prototype) to shot
He made some interesting points. Good video.
Sick F*&(
I believe that automobiles can make their own energy while driving down the road. Beneath the automobile are four tires. Why cant these tires be turned into turbines? A turbine is a device that harnesses the kinetic energy of some fluid such as water, steam, air or combustion gases and turns this into the rotational motion of the device itself. These devices are generally used in electrical generation, engines, and propulsion systems and are classified as a type of engine. Below the automobile is four wheels that are spinning a lot of the time getting the driver from point a to point b. While the tires are spinning down the road---why can't they be producing electricity and sending that electricity back into the battery that is powering the automobile in the first place. Before there were battery powered automobiles---this would not be feasible. Where would this generated electricity go? It is not like there is a place to store this much electricity in an automobile powered by gasoline. However, now that automobiles are powered by large batteries, there is a place to store this electricity to be used for more trips in the future. Just inside the tire there can be built into the tire a large copper rim that would be used instead of a steel or aluminum. In the center of the tire where the axil is is a very powerful electro magnet. This powerful electro magnet should not spin with the tire but should be stationery. Either ball bearings or some other mechanism should be used to make the electro magnet in the center of the tire not move with the tire but be stationery. So, the copper band which makes up the rim of the tire spins around the electro magnet where the axil is--producing electricity and this electricity is fed into the battery of the car by electric wires. The battery stores this electricity for future road trips. If the battery is efficient enough and the copper band and electro magnets in each four tires are powerful enough----a surplus of electricity/energy my be produced. This means that more electricity is produced than is needed to run the automobile. This surplus of energy is called the efficiency threshold. This is not a perpetual motion machine---just a surplus of energy through mechanical means. This surplus of energy could be fed back into the home/ and or electric grid when the automobile is parked. In fact, why not have a home generator based on this principle. If the automobile is suspended off the ground---and the tires rotate but don't go anywhere, but just produce electricity in surplus for the home---then the home could have almost perpetual electrical energy generated this way. This would be a basic model but soon it would be streamlined for home or business use. No more need for coal, gas, oil, or nuclear power plants to power anything. Purely clean electricity--no need for the sun or wind power. It is self sustaining and mobile form of energy that can be taken anywhere--even to outer space.
Ok say you turn the wheels into turbines. Number 1 how the hell are you going to do that, Number 2 you have to power the car somehow. Unlimited energy isn’t a thing
That would never work. It is the law of diminishing returns. You can never extract more energy from a closed system than you put in.
Making oil out of sunlight, I need some of that
Hhh
I'm black and I'm watchinh this....just wanted everyone here to know...
+Simon Bolthausen I'm glad aswell.
Do you want a medal or something?
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What we need is to bring world human population down to 2 Billion people (OR LESS) and then we have solved ALL of the problems. No one will say that.
Hey we can do this change now. Hiding the truth about a rise in temperature is probably due to the vast wealth of the oil industry.
Bill Gates was not even a good visionary in IT. Why would he be good in telling us about how to supply the world with power in the future? Reminds me on Donald Trump. What is it in the US, that people with money are consulted for important questions?!
Ruined by music. I cannot listen to what he is saying
Not gonna happen
Bill, Just say it. Wind and solar won't get us there; not even close. Right now nuclear is our best option to wean us off hydro-carbons. You kind of said it, but it was fogged by PC language. nuclear costs and safety problems can be overcome with todays technology.
Nuclear Power!
Nestor Gonzalez Nuclear power creates too much waste and is dangerous
Mr Gates what want me for.
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relax for my brain
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Government "investment" holds back R&D. Those that get it are on a gravy train, whilst those that don't are hindered by the inflated prices that the former creates by government intervention in addition to regulatory policies that make breakthroughs from independence more possible.
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who is this guy? souns like he knows stuff
yeah someone should give him a lot of money to speak more about these things
Mi he seems very fond of that nice pink woolly
In order to reduce food and energy demand we need Thanos👌
I'D LIKE TO BE AS GENTLE , AS SENSITIVE TO THE NEEDS OF OTHERS , & AS KIND AS BILL GATES , IF I COULD ESCAPE THOSE WHO PERSECUTE ME & PERHAPS MOVE SOMEWHAT CLOSER TO THE GATES....
they long ago realized that we cannot provide enough energy to the parasitic class humans that keep breeding like flies so they decided to wipe this class out and they don't care about the collateral damage ( the working middle class) hence the "covid" "vaccine"
good luck
I come to realize I don’t believe this man is good for humanity. Just my opinion
Folks ... let's make something clear here ... Solar energy will not replace fossil fuels in all its forms as it is used today ... However ... the story is like this ... that is, solar energy is very "expensive" but do you know that the production of CO2 when you burn fossil fuels is not yet part of the electricity bill? ... If you add the fossil fuel pollution to the total cost ... then ... maybe solar power is not that expensive ... At some point ... you have to do your own research and come to your own conclusions . Again ... here in Puerto Rico we have a lot of sun all year round ... but we also have a hurricane season ... Therefore our solar panels must be installed to withstand winds of around 150 MPH ... two years ago I completed an experimental project ... drop by czcams.com/video/2nYy4M1FReY/video.html. Comments are welcome. Thank you.
Just as long as you can meeter it we want free energy .to be free
Why are we asking a geeky computer guy to solve energy problems versus our scientists?
So instead of New medical tech, put everything into new energy source as it's the only way we live.
it goes the other way around...
Solar electric power supply bill gate family 👪
God ok
Why not embrace revolutionary technologies that supersede wind and solar but don't have the associated issues. I viewed some videos by the energy company H2IL Looks like they have the ultimate solution. Has wow factor! A large corporations need to snatch it up and solve our ever growing energy concerns.
Why would anyone trust this man????
Interesting.. miracles in science are happening all the time. Soo. Science now accept divine power and call as fact an event that happened and was unique and not repeatable let alone explainable. 🤔. That's real science is it?😂😂😂🤦🏼♂️
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