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- Declining prices for devices to generate and store renewable energy are great, but not nearly enough to save the world from climate change, according to Bill Gates.
Gates talked about overly optimistic thinking, natural gas, a carbon tax and the responsibilities of developing economies vs. developed economies. He was hopeful, however, that the power of research and innovation could meet rising energy demand globally while addressing climate change and other environmental challenges.
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Seeing Bill Gates get mad at renewable advocates makes me happy
They just can't dismiss his opinion...
Thats is so sad. I weech you well
@@ciceroaraujo5183 yes, renewables are sad
Yes, but in the very near future, they will be the only "Game In Town", unless a process of "Cold Fusion" is discovered or maybe Hydrogen.
@@trubdour no, molten salt reactors are the answer
He keeps talking about artificial meat. I say HELL No!
Ya know several famous Frontiersmen back in the 1800's made the observation that you could see buffalo from horizon to horizon in the western parts of the US, and yet it didn't seem to be a polution problem.
Because it was pre industry, and regulatory capture. Once deregulated, courts can not look at that chemical as a source, or accept evidence that mentions it.
This is why it went from CFCs to carbon and co2. They are the only factors of the equasion that are not protected by deregulation. Spray cans often say "no CFCs" yet the ingredients list things like Hexachlora- tetrafluora etc.. The second it is released from the can, it WILL immediately bind to carbons or oxygens (including co2) and make dioxins, CFCs etc. They wreak havock on all systems, from ozone layer, to biological organisms.
Mr Burns at his best
Gates makes so much sense in some areas but plants actually breath cow farts. So its not emissions. Some he is a good speaker and very intelligent he skips over truths to promote his goals. He's selling it but IMO he skips to sell the other projects he wants to invest in and develop
You really should do research on how he founded Microsoft. He stole Windows from Xerox and Job stole the hardware from Xerox as well. They both worked for Xerox's innovation department in the 60s and realized that Xerox didn't see the value in what their co-workers had created, so they stole what their co-workers had developed because Xerox didn't care and they created their own companies. They even admitted it when Jobs said Gates stole his ideas in the 80s when they became arch enemies after being friends and working together to steal from Xerox. Its insane how few people know this about Bill Gates. He is not a genius but he pays everyone to treat him like he is a genius. But, now that he is ruined, people are more open to seeing the truth, especially since he said it himself that he stole from Xerox....
When Jobs accused Gates of stealing the idea, he famously answered: "Well, Steve, .”
I hope you are joking that he "makes sense." NOBODY should listen to little bill gates. And I DO mean little
The question Bill Gates needs to be asked before dispensing his advice on energy, climate, etc., is: What is $ value of damage inflicted on the world by computer viruses enabled by Windows OS over several decades?
Could you invite someone that is actually a specialist? His knowledge on various issues energy-related are well below par.
Hmm , so your implying your the expert..
Inspirational stuff. Kudos to Stanford for putting this out there for everyone.
Bill Gates has never had vision. And this video continues his historical incompetence.
where can i get those shoes
Havana Cuba.
@@michaelmcdonald4442 thats a bit far, do you know the brand name?
According to the head of the IEA the real problem is the thousands of coal fired electricity plants being built in Asia. We should focus on helping them use more efficient carbon capture for the plants.
How in the hell did Bill democratized computing ?
To inspire people today was also the key to give hope for the stress people like todays pandemic.
This man is highly invested in Monsanto, the leading producer of genetically modified crop seed. They produce large numbers of seeds which contain the exact same patented genome. Theses seeds are the most commonly used by the majority of farmers. Not only do the plants that grow NOT produce any seeds (so the farmers need to purchase seeds each year) , but evolutionarily, the plants have been stripped of their adaptability the they had gained through thousands of years of evolutionary pressures. One fungus could cause every Monsanto soybean plant to die. Doesn't sound like he has much forethought at all. This man is a narcissistic sociopath who thinks he is so much better than the avg person and therefore, mistakenly, thinks his answers are the always the right one. Ironic considering the only field in which he has any related knowledge, which is computers, he had to misappropriate his partners ideas in order to succeed in the first place
Bill Gates has never had vision. And this video continues his historical incompetence.
"the climate is easy to solve group is our biggest problem" ... Spot on !
see advancing ecco agreculture for improveing photosythetic efficiency
Bill Gates, leave nature ALONE, YOURE MAD!!!
32:50 interesting to watch this in 2020
Thorium Salt breeder that is driven by a particle accelerator.:
Just a stainless steel vessel for thorium chloride, A particle accelerator hits a target to make neutrons to breed thorium with a neutron slowing salt moderator. It is down at low pressure for operation. I don't know if Protactinium-233 would make enough heat to keep the molten salt hot and run a small 1MW carbon dioxide cycle generator. But if so it could be a breeder that makes energy from breeding thorium rather than consuming U233 witch could be used in other MSR burners. But that may be a pipe dream. But why didn't Bill Gates invest in focus fusion when he had the chance.
There will NEVER be more Oil. There’s No Tomorrow (Limits to Growth )
This must be before he developed his current solution, which is population control.
Bill Gates has never had vision. And this video continues his historical incompetence.
Gates talking about Nuclear power, doesn't compare it to renewable. Talks about creating a perfect system but yet we still have IT departments to solve his basic core business issues.
If a wind turbine fails does it cause a nuclear catastrophy?
The World has to be managed better. To repair climate, so that the ecosystem can be brought back into balance, urgent steps and funding is important. Wasting people's money on wars and weapons has to end. The money should go to climate management.
Watching the thumbnail here, looks like Jimmy Saville sitting on his chair the same how Jimmy Saville sits on his chair on Jim'll Fix It 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Really admire his passion and his being so down-to-earth and practial!!
He is one of the elites.
Don't be fooled by his yap yap
Down to earth and practical?? little bill gates, and I DO mean little, has never been practical
I am from India and my house got 2kw of solar with lead acid batter as storage and it give 4 hours of electricity back up , that run the lights , fan and freezer but not AC for night. this been running since 5 years and this costed 0.5 million for installation. Today the same system cost 0.1 million and which is giving 8 hours back up. I really do not understand when bill gate say the system is not reliable. it is getting better , he should be know how the computing got better and reliable every day dam year. Ok i agree that co2 is not going to be zero by going renewable completely but it is good start in that direction.
If the standard of foods is controlled it might decrease the over consumption of food for entertainment, because the quality of food products has suffered due to the increase in quantity due to the increase in demand, but the food consumed by people as a necassity should not be expensive.
Give supply water to the community can reduce global warming it's because they can plant more and grow agriculture.
Any Place I am working ready.
33:26-34:57. Loved this totally.
10:28 "There is no substitute for how the industrial economy runs today", I believe the move towards other "global health concerns you might have heard about recently" strategies were likely born out of Bill's perception that the Climate Crisis campaign has been too slow, flailing and waning. And something more dramatic had to be done to achieve the same goals.
Bill Gates has never had vision. And this video continues his historical incompetence.
It seems that these technologies have turned out to be faddish... however, it wasn't due to the fault or defectiveness of the technology. It was due to the non-existent maintenance contracts, which would have tied each sale, to a local plumbing or solar company, to perform whatever service and maintenance was required. Electro-mechanical devices DO eventually wear out, but if even ONE important part malfunctions, it would have detrimental effects on the system, or could even prevent it from working. (In this comment, I am writing about individual home-sized hot water solar systems, which included custom-made hot water storage tanks, flat plate collectors, pumps, sensors,, and the pipes to plumb them into a system. I am pointing out a huge shortfall of forward-thinking ideas, about the need to maintain and check out these systems, on a regular basis... (so that the new technologies avoid becoming just another fad.) Bill seems not to realize that a nuclear power plant takes 20 years to build... which will bring it online TOO LATE, and who wants spewing nuclear Fukishima-like, or Chernobyl-like contamination? HELL NO ! No Nukes ! No Nukes ! No more Uranium mining ! No more "depleted Uranium" keep that stuff IN THE GROUND ! AWAY FROM PEOPLE ~!
Does Michel Morle watched this video, before making a Documentry film "The Planet of Human"?
CONVIENE ENTERARSE QUE RESOLVER EL PROBLEMA DEL CALENTAMIENTO GLOBAL "NO SON ENCHILADAS".
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Creo que sus buenas intenciones son muy importante para ayudar en todo lo que se cree
Pero hay un detalle que se debería tomar en cuenta a la hora de formar fundaciones
Muchas se crean para fines personales "eludir impuesto"
Así su bolsillo sigue lleno
Pasan desapercibidos
La realidad es dura y cruel
Hay que mirar con consciencia y ya parece que la misma se va perdiendo
Se que sú fundación ha echo mucho
Y es de grata satisfacción saber que hay personas como ud Sr Bill que lucha por hacer cosas a favor de las personas más necesitadas
Pensar que se puede ir más allá
hacer cambios para poder mantener este mundo que no vio nacer, "es una esperanza"
Es hora de devolver lo que se roba a la humanidad (esfuerzo sacrificio ectera ) y por lo menos poder realizar los sueños de quienes se levantan día a día para ir a trabajar esas personas son los que realmente trabajan para que otros vivan bien me copias verdad !!!
A quien le caiga el guante que se aguante
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Well said.I fully agree Nobel peace prize to him alone for his conviction and vision.
Bill Gates has never had vision. And this video continues his historical incompetence.
The idea that renewable energy is not the solution and we should bet on nuclear power instead is weird. Renewable energy is so much cheaper than nuclear power. In Denmark - where I live - we will get to zero-emission electricity within the next decade. We are already at 135 gram CO2 / KWh due to renewable energy - that 7.5 times better than places in the US. And Denmark has some of the cheapest electricity in the world. The storage problem will be solved using PtX tech, it will be expensive, but not nuclear power expensive.
"The Gate" (Shark Tank) Bill should create a show to fund ideas of change/Help Get a bunch of Billionaires on the show and really do it right
Except Bill stole Windows from Xerox like Jobs stole the hardware from them too while BOTH of them were working for the Xerox innovation department together>...
When Jobs accused Gates of stealing the idea, he famously answered: "Well, Steve, .”
33:00 that year came sooner than thought. It is 2020
Using Bill's own words then saying Africa needs to do whatever it needs to do coupled with his statements that nuclear power with the improved designs of today using low pressure is the answer, not wind or solar, wouldn't you then embark on building nuclear power plants in Africa to match his "do whatever is needed" statement?
Also, since he acknowledges the growth of China and India and what appears to be their "Industrial Revolution", and their impending damage to the environment, then wouldn't it make more sense to concentrate efforts there and make them do things to "not" damage the environment "now" rather than later which the Paris Peace Accord allows them to do. Our "industrial Revolution" lacked the R&D and awareness of the damage we were doing to to the environment at the time. That was then. This is now and China and India have no such excuse. The United States has made huge strides and accomplished much since the 70's to correct and address these issues. Hell, I remember when cars only got 15-16 mpg and in major cities clean air was a major problem. You could not see downtown LA because of air pollution. Not so today. What happened ? We must have done something right over the years and the American people should not be made pay for the rest of the world's refusal to shoulder the cost of doing this alone. Again, more is known today about environmental impacts due to industrilization by the rest of the world than was known during our own, so simply, why aren't they doing something about it? I would also ask what Europe is doing to further this cause as i already know, very little..
나에겐 윌리엄이 참 귀중한 사람 입니다
we can harness the energy of gravity, make artificial waterfalls,
the problem of raising water requires greater energy upwards can be overcome with water electrolysis, but gravity on earth is small enough that it requires modification of liquid molecules other than water (H2O)+catalyst
because the height of the water tube required is around 300000 meters if using H2O, and yes this looks like perpetual motion.
Send this to your congress representative.
We need a comity. Not comedy. ( Courts from different jurisdictions to recognize each other's laws for mutual benefit.) 21:27
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Co2 is .04% of air composition. It has fluctuated over planetary history. Why are sun cycles left out of the equation? I’m for clean air, however we need base load energy’s we do freeze to death if sun cycles plummet. The last ice age began with glaciers that grew from the attic to NYC in a span of 20 years.
SALUDOS CON MUCHA FE DE JOACIN MONTOYA, INVENTOR DE CODIGOS MONTOYA Y ESCRITURA GLOBAL... CON UNA GRAN IDEA PARA QUE LOS MUDOS PUEDAN HABLAR... Y ASI POR ESTE MISMO MEDIO YO ESTOY BUSCANDO UN PATROSINADOR PARA FABRICAR MIS EQUIPOS ELETRONICOS... GRACIAS POR LEER MI PETISION Y MI SLUDO...
Uranium ore resources are limited resources. Of course, our suggestions put rare earth metal mining ore material including uranium ore can regard as development of future military and national defense system in United States such as development ICBM missile fuel and metal body material/aircraft engine/rocket engine/jet fighter/nuclear submarine
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32:48 Mass Recession!!! He Know!! Corona is a KEY!!!!!!
Solar and wing with hydrogen backup .....oil , coal and nuclear will run out of their fuels but are there enough heavy metals and speciality metals to create solar and hydrogen sustainability
Great interview 🎉, and so informative for the Smart people
European Lithium (EUR) in talks for potential offtake with Volkswagen, Mercedes Benz and LG Chem Poland. European Lithium is aiming to become the first producer of sustainable battery-grade lithium hydroxide in Europe, by developing the Wolfsberg Lithium Project, supplying an integrated European battery supply chain, located only 270km from Vienna, Austria. Recently, Britain had originally planned to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel-powered cars from 2040, as part of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and in February Johnson brought this forward to 2035. Citing unidentified industry and government figures, the FT said Johnson now intended to move the date forward again to 2030 in a speech on environmental policy. This is great news for the comany. Huge potiential for growth with strategic partnerships with the British EV Market.
Not sure if I've ever seen such a groveling, sycophantic interview in my life
32:00 The year wherein the world makes less CO2 will be the year of the COVID 19 or CCP virus pandemic.
spot on, - HE KNEW THERE WOULD BE A WORLD RECESSION - in 2018. I`ve tracked and traced HIM AND OTHERS FOR THE LAST 9 months ..
29:54 Invest in energy that is reliable 24 hours a day instead of intermittent with massive storage issues.
Well clearly he was not comfortable in that chair..
These hosts at Universities are always so bad...
Yes, I confident that Mr Boss Bill Gates is absolutely right about this opportunity seriously truthfully faithful believe him Amen!💕
Hydro power water systems to electrical grid through air cloud seeding or large sized air water production machine based on biodiesel vegetables oil generator can change everything. Biodiesel vegetables oil generator and hydroelectricity power water systems to electrical grid are very stable and more reliable. Water resources and biodiesel vegetables oil are unlimited production.
Palais de Versailles.
Bill gates sir kal mein jis dokanse book kharida thha oos dokander mujhe 1 book deke baaki book ka bareme kaha out of market mein chup thha.
Look on the bright side. Once everyone forgets what real meat tastes like, fake-meat will be easier to manufacture and sell in all kinds of flavours. Example, "natural ginger rump roast".
Okay
Bill gates sir kal mein jo book kharida ooska price 1200 rupees r oxford dictionarika price 1000 rupees liyaa
BILL IS RIGHT HERE .
WE NEED PRESIDENTS WHO WORK WITH HIS ENVIRONMENTAL PLANS .
Bill I also own a samsung zfold5 it's good❤❤
The wildlife in Africa, now so endangered, must be preserved! Giraffes are already being electrocuted by electric wires...Mr. Gates, surely you can come up with better and more environmentally sound ideas for development in Africa!!
Hydrogen generated from human and livestock waste at point of production ...your bathroom and livestock barns
No doubt great Mr. Gates is a man of Scientific Realism. Always great
How was the surf and turf dinner. I Mr Gates. Regular don't come back from stuff like that.
Thank you.🙏
Ok
The Africa part is kinda true
Development of nuclear power is no better than development ICBM missile national defense military system. This is our opinion
Perhaps the Nobel Prize for what? barry soetero has made the nobel prize like breaking a pinata award.
차근차근 풀어갑시다ㅡbill ok
Bill gates level of intelligence is often overlooked, I think he is up there with Elon Musk.
Bill Gates has never had vision. And this video continues his historical incompetence.
Hey Bill, what happened to your buddy Jeffrey????
He should be put in prison for what he done with the jab he was telling everyone that its as so good you made billions then you sold that then started saying the jab was no good it did not work
7:53 lol Modi and his vanity. Why am I not surprised?
Glad someone agrees that nuclear is the best solution to climate change.
To electricity*. And it's a part of the solution to the problem
@@Meatchop Nuclear can be used for most others. It generates a lot of heat that is wasted otherwise. Use for industrial process heat. It can reliably generate massive amounts of energy. Use things like HTE for hydrogen generation, and Fischer-Tropsch to create synthetic hydrocarbons, methane, gasoline etc. Store them. Use the gas storage to run in load following gas turbines to allow reactors to be 100% on all the time as they like. Use the gasoline, diesel or jet fuel in cars, ships, planes etc.
All it takes is enough nuclear reactors to cover all energy usage in a non-CO2 emitting way. This is possible with no new technology necessary.
@@zolikoff you make a point about the numerous other use cases, but the idea that it's a solution to all of our problems is exactly what Gates is criticizing.
We never needed nuclear energy.
We never asked for it.
They just started to use this technology and trough it we enjoy a lot of electricity.
Who knows what would have happend if there would be no nuclear power plants. Maybe we wouldnt spire out of control like we do now and would life more simple with less electricity.
Nevertheless, we wouldnt be less happy because of this.
Now that everything needs a lot of energy, we cannot get away from it in a fast way. Its now difficult to stop it, because the energy demands are just too high.
Anyway: Point being. We never should have started to build these nuclear power plants. Humans make errors and in case of nuclear, errors are problematic for future generations to come. Not to speak of all that waste that they need to carry deep down in some cavern.
Nuclear Power never is and was justified. Its just all about that shitty money.
Fusion yes, fission... There is tradeoff. We have to acknowledge the Murphy's law, as long as there is a non-zero chance a catastrophy result can happent, IT will happen (given enough time). We have seen Chernobyl and Fukushima, it was bad... Add the fact that we have been utter shit in disposing nuclear waste, I would argue against Nuclear Fission Plants.
Now, of course there will always be risk associated with everything. We know that there is non-zero chance for an airplane to drop from the sky no matter how sophisticated and safe flying is, yet we still use them because we understand that the tradeoff from being able to transport or travel is worth it. I simply think the environment catastrophy from a nuclear fallout is not worth it.
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Bill Gates is not an ideologue. He approaches an issue from a science based analytical angle. His ultimate aim is to better the lives of all human beings not to subscribe to some irrational ideology or fantasy.
Agreed, but ironically you have a bunch of random conservatives in the comments who don't want to improve the climate at all jerking themselves off to this video when the reality is that Bill Gates is still a huge advocate of improving the climate, he's just realistic about it.
Locrian I give you that. Supports my contention that he is not an ideologue.
I smell a Shill in Tightass
Speaking of diversifying the generation of electricity for family consumption Gates responds to a certain imaginary activist position that would pretend to totally eliminate the consumption of hydrocarbons.
It is called straw man fallacy, so it's very easy to look like he is right.
Gaston Naboulet 100% reliance on renewable energy isn’t a strawman, it’s explicitly called for in the green new deal as early as within the next 10-15 years. That’s not a fringe position, it’s mainstream, several democratic presidential candidate have endorsed the deal.
"they've tried putting little torches...on a cow's butt." > that didn't work either
Meat is only about 2% total of GHG emissions, and the majority of that emissions is Methane, which lasts about 12 years in the atmosphere, compared to carbon which is 1000+ years. This is according to the IPCC. There are some farms that are actually carbon-saving when it comes to cows. Additionally, go look at crop lands - they’re basically deserts which are devoid of ANY life other than the crop (mostly soy, wheat, corn - the stuff that gets us sick and the stuff that nearly all processed food contains). Ruminants actually improve soil organic matter content, water retention, and carbon storage. Impossible burger and beyond meats is absolute garbage when it comes to health, and unfortunately, any type of climate change solution they’re proposing accounts for ELIMINATING cows from the landscape-which will destroy our already awful grasslands and our largest carbon sinks (more so than forests). He’s absolutely right on the nuclear and battery storage, but is BLINDED by the processed slop garbage.
Thank you.
One of the most classic lines of the 21st Century.
'What could be cooler than improving photo-synthetic efficiency?'
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Perhaps restoring the Natural world, and learning how to limit ourselves, (Our ego manifestations) and learn the Earth's "dance steps", so we step more lightly, AND get real with limiting the human population which can be allowed on Earth (since we have a potential for UNLIMITED overpopulation.... but we have ONLY a limited Earth... (who also is facing more and more pressure, due to our increasing human population. We had better wake the fook oop !!
Can someone please tell what parts of the video he discusses nuclear energy? Thanks
not the cows , leave them alone please
10:28 "THERE IS no substitute for how the industrial economy runs today..."
Ive watched a few interviews of bill gates over different time periods and I never saw him get quite animatingly bent out of shape as he did here. You can see this is very personal for him.
It probably has to do with the fact that his wife had found out that he likes preteen girls and was hanging out with Epstein a little too much for her comfort ;)
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STFU already lmao Epstein in his business life, like 99% of rich billionaires, literally had a thousand friends, most of them just casual business connections. This witch hunt nonsense spurred from overblown moral outrage is literally falling you guys on your face trying to connect any dot you see to create a picture you assume is true rather than have evidence for.
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Not personal, rather desperate. I’m in the energy industry and the future is looking extremely grim.
Cool new techs are flowing in, problem is we just don’t have enough time. Like, who’s gonna pay for rural India’s nuclear? How will we stop human beings eat meat? How will we solve the high transportation cost of H2 (No, NH3 isn’t the answer). It’ll take at least couple centuries for these issues and yet we have half a century. Time. That’s the real issue on hand.
Have you ever asked yourself why?
Send this video to AOC.
I’ve never seen Gates as angry as here....
checkout, when he gets pissed when told, ai isn't an existential threat(when talking with elon musk and Baidu i think).
He sees Elon is going to overtake him and Buffett and gets angry.. Nuclear works, solar works. We need all.
Not recently, agreed, but back in the day, he was a million times angrier than this 24x7.
Because global warming is serious, but so many people are still refusing to use nuclear power. I am angry, too.
i know right?!?! he seems fed up lol
So when CO levels were at about 300 PPM during the 1930’s, we still had extreme weather. In fact it was more extreme than it has been recently.
Weather isn’t climate
"Weather isn't climate" until a natural disaster happens and alarmist screech about it being climate change.
@@siegfriedoffizensburches6228 well then dont listen to that either? Its not so difficult
The interviewer focuses on suggesting a group of methods that might help and then asks Bill to give his input, I like that.
Why? Its not like Bill is a genius or has any credentials in the field. You do realize that back in the 80s he and Steve Jobs got into a public fight and Steve Jobs accused him of stealing from Jobs and Bill admitted they both stole, but from Xerox, and Bill stole the software while Jobs stole the hardware while they were working in the innovation department at Xerox. Look it up, do the research, this is much easier than having to look through scientific literature so it shouldn't be hard for you to find out that Gates and Jobs are not geniuses, but rather, they are Thomas Edison's of our generation while the people who created the software and hardware ideas they stole from the real geniuses exactly like they did to Tesla. The real geniuses rarely make the history books because they aren't concerned with making a fortune but are overwhelmed with advancing mankind...
The more I hear bill gates speak the more I like him...
Woody Allen's brainy brother
I remember in the 80's and 90's we used to despise him (for his poor quality OS, mostly). Things are different now.
Still poor quality though
@islanti nope..just has you fooled.
Give more grazing rights to ranchers on public lands because the cattle will eat the underbrush and prevent forest firers much better than controlled burns. Do not believe these University Educated forest rangers because the cattle will eat the underbrush as the large buffalo herds did in the past. We need to listen more to the ranchers who raised cattle on the land for generations!
Goats eat brush. Cows eat grass.
Bill needs no interruption
Actually he does... When Jobs accused Gates of stealing the idea, he famously answered: "Well, Steve, .”
My Father an EE designed and built the UPS unit used at Cheyenne Mt. Yes that Mt. the Military uses. Something happened & he had to repair it after 5 years. It took about 30 seconds to find the problem. But the Military soldiers were giving him a hard time with their Rifles . He knew they were trying to intimidate him to hurry up and finish. But,he also knew they could not do anything to him. So he took his time. DoD got the bill.They still use them to this day. He built one for our house & 40 yrs later it still works too.
What reactor design is Mr.Gates referring to for his salt pool fission reactor?
I believe he is suggesting the thorium and/or fusion/fission and low pressure liquid salt heat transfer units, (similar to problem free submarine and aircraft carrier models), based on super safe, non-weapons grade, reactors.
Geothermal is baseload renewable power. Japan has huge geothermal potential. That is something to invest in!
Geothermal is not a universal power source. Not all areas have access to Geothermal. Japan is just an example of why intermittent sources will never solve the problem. Remember that polar vortex just a few weeks ago? Guess what. No amount of solar, wind and batteries could have saved cities like Chicago or Minneapolis. They all would have frozen.
The world needs a universal base load that is cheaper than coal and NG. There is only 1 source that can fit this requirement right now. Gen 4 Fission.
Martin Lindh Reading your post reminded me that I know very little about geothermal. What factor is it that makes Japan such a strong place for geothermal? Is it a ground temp vs ambient temp differential?
Andy Spicer. Japan is on the ”ring of fire”. There are many volcanos, geothermal spings etc. They don’t have to drill deep ro find hot rock/water.
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geothermal also requires stable ground to run piping of conducting fluid. reliability will be an issue
Martin Lindh Geothermal is very challenging to engineer. Heat, water, minerals & time equal corrosive failure. It’s impossible to get anything approaching grid level heat transfer from the bottom of a 10” bore hole or even a hundred.
Then there’s the geology. Drilling Bunchs of holes and pumping massive amounts of water is a recipe for earthquakes, ask Oklahoma. Geo adds to the difficulty by creating large thermal gradients. All this in Ring of Fire type geology that is already highly unstable, and unpredictable over time.
Electric generation solutions are all about reliability, when we flip the switch it has to be there.
He's in on the Liquid metal Battery. Makes me wish I was an investor.