The "I planted some trees or bought carbon credit so I can burn all the fossil fuel I want and still call myself carbon neutral" has got to be one of the biggest BS arguments of our time.
Is all BS. One volcano eruption can belt out more toxic emissions than all of mankind has since the Industrial Revolution. But they will find a way to TAX you over your minuscule insignificant footprint. No climate alarmist prediction has ever come true. It’s all fear mongering. We always need to work on pollution (because, we LIVE here…) but to think governments will be able to control the climate if they tax us enough is the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the human race.
i can get on board with the planting trees one i think, but the buying credits thing is total nonsense lol. I dont know much about the tree thing, that could certainly be dumb too i just dont know the info on that
Yes, planting trees or better yet encouraging alge growth are wonderful, but A net carbon footprint is nonsense and just gives the worst polluters something to trumpet on their website after they spend .00001% of their profits to buy carbon credits after decimating the environment.
I was living in Seattle as Bill Gates and Microsoft were taking off. I really respected him and looked at him as someone who was doing a lot of good for the world. I have the opposite view now.
Gates was a POS from the start he wrecked better products using so many different methods it was like a mission he had to make software worse. He is a very succesful pos.
Bill Gates is disappointing. He has this global investment fund and he does so little actual good with all the money. After his divorce his ex-wife has made more of an impact with her money.
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@@GabrielNicho What good has he done? He is helping all of us by buying all the farmland? Bill gates Has been wrecking society his entire life starting with his monoplistic style with Microsoft.
We wouldnt have an EV market today if it wasn't for Tesla and Elon Musk The Legacy Car Manufacture has said and continue to say that public dont want EV's and you cant make EV's profitably etc etc and Tesla has proved them wrong and demonstrated that you can make desirable EV's, profitably in every market. The Legacy guys have run out of excuses
@@timothykeith1367 I doubt it, can you link me to an article, specifically to this, as every new start company has cash issues, especially in the car industry, all the major legacy manufacturers have had $ Bns off of the government in loans they never had to pay back, why is Tesla different in your eyes
@@timothykeith1367 Tesla certainly dont need it now as they have $10's Bns in the bank, They are the most profitable companies in the world, whilst Legacy Auto's have mountains of debt, tesla make a very nice 20% margin on their cars, Legacy has very small margins and need their dealers to rely on servicing to make their money back. There is no requirement from Tesla to have you service your car, at all.
@@stevehayward1854Dude, Teslas main income has come from those credits other car companies have to pay Tesla because they make gasoline cars...can't remember what they are called right now.
@@GabrielNicho The credits has been a lot but the main difference is that Tesla can make a car in 10mins and VW takes 30mins to do the same. Teslas profits come from a much more efficient production system using giga castings to do away with hundreds of small body panels that make up the under floor rear and front, with the battery being structural it has reduced the component pasrt of the whole floor pan to 3, they have been able to remove hundreds of robots from the production line and reduce the factory floor, dramatically therefore reducing cost. The material used in the giga casting was developed by Elon's SpaceX company
I agree. This is a big ass problem. Billions of dollars in research funding and venture capital are going to go to things that don't have a snowball's chance in hell to making any kind of difference in climate change. Dead end technologies being implemented such as Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS), all hydrogen, nuclear and more. With CCS the costs are astronomical for the small amount of carbon that they manage to get out of the air, or scrub from smoke stacks. With hydrogen getting it from current sources such as steam reformed natural gas or coal isn't green. CO2 is just released while trying to isolate the hydrogen. The problem with "green" hydrogen, hydrogen extracted from water using electricity from solar, wind etc. (electrolasys), is far less efficient than just using the electricity directly. In most cases, rather than going with "green" hydrogen, it would be easier and far more efficient to just go electric. The new idea with nuclear is small nuclear power plants in hopes that this will reduce the cost of implementing nuclear. What it doesn't consider is that by having for example four small nuclear power plants rather than one large one, we've managed to increase the likelihood of having a serious nuclear accident fourfold. And there is no guarantee that making many smaller nuclear power plant is going to be any cheaper than building fewer large ones.
Gates has spent more money on keeping people fed and alive than anyone else in history. And you didn't know that because he doesn't brag about it. He tossed billions into COVID vaccine production facilities just in case the techniques being developed actually worked. It was a 'just in case' expenditure. He had little probability of making a dime from it, but he did it anyway, because it 'might' save a few million lives. Your comment reflects your opinion, not the facts.
Theres nothing wrong with one person having that much money, in the right hands a rich man can do a lot of good, like Elon who has shown the world that it's possible to make desirable and profitably, he has restored free speech to the internet and revolutionised space flight.
@stevehayward1854 I think you are spot on with your commentary. Someone else said something like... but he still wants more. I would say that you can best decide a man's intentions by observing what he is both saying and doing. Elon lives a humble life in a normal house, and not in a mansion.
@@tonysurber9111 His goal is to transition us to clean energy, clean transport, free speech and establishing mankind on Mars, and his only desire is to establish companies that can achieve that.
@@alarjak Who, Gates or Musk ? Gates desire is for more personal wealth, Elon is to establish companies that can provide clean energy, clean transport, free speech, providing the internet to everyone, revolutionising space flight to establish mankind on Mars, to save mankind from extinction
Tesla is the only reason we have EV’s today at all. All the Chinese EV companies are using the tech that Tesla made available for free. There would be no EVs for 50 years at least without Tesla. All OEM’s are being dragged along kicking & screaming.
The windows OS not sleeping and hibernating incorrectly wasted and waists so much energy it’s insane. Most businesses people I know leave their computer on overnight because it takes 10 minutes for corporate updates every morning if you turn off your computer.
Yes. A human lives a bit under 700,000 hours on average. Every 700,000 hours wasted on inefficient Windows code, crashes, unnecessary reboots, patches that won't install and so on, is effectively equivalent to an instance of manslaughter. Making Windows just a fraction better would save energy, save lives, get more done from the most capable people who can contribute the most, reduce stress levels and reduce global warming from a number of factors (electricity used, new computers bought to cope with sloppy code, human time and therefore food wasted etc etc). Not that I don't think he can also help to cure polio. Just that if he drove MS to actually make better software, it'd quite likely save more energy/money/time/lives than he can with the same money elsewhere. Although Polio is still a higher priority since once gone, it's gone forever like smallpox.
@@ernieschatz3783 they did meet thats true, but no evidence they were friends. Unlike Trump, Clinton and Gates that have been well documented. Lets stick to the facts please.
@@illargi100Ehh lol, Gates had one meeting with Epstein (in a New York hotel), and then met him twice more later (quicker meets same hotel). So would hardly call that friends lol.
I have never used fossil fuels to heat my home 60 miles south of Canada, have been a net seller of solar power since 2017 and driving aEV for 3 years. Working on switching from wood heat to a well based geothermal heat pump for heating. Keep up your work informing us all about developments in the green space! Cheers
@impressive, except he mentioned wood heating, which produces incredible volumes of CO2. And smoke if done poorly. Said nothing about rocket stove or similar, insulation. (Not so long ago, we used many tonnes of wood for old farm house. It’s a deflection to say it’d rot down anyway.)
@@iandavies4853give him the credit he deserves for making a huge effort. He is after all going for the ground source heat pump and the wood he has burnt was not fossil and probably collected a few meters away from his boiler. There is a saying don't make the perfect enemy of the good.
Predictions of Bill Gates have always been for laughing. E.g. after introduction of the first iPhone he said, that nobody would buy phone for 500 USD. 😂😂
Cheers to tesla, not perfect, they are improving and i couldn't imagine owning an ev with less charging infrastructure. I love my 21 m3lr [73k miles so far] and I've had a moments of "wtf elon". Much less than the wtf moments brought by my past ford, toyota, vw, Mitsubishi, saturn, chevy or gm. Even the price drops since my purchase do not take away from the value & lifetime cost savings i receive. =b but excited to spend less upfront on the next ev.
If there is to be investment in nuclear, it should be in Thorium reactors where Thorium is cheaper and more abundant than Uranium, can be used more safely because runaway chain reactions aren’t a problem, and can be used, apparently, to render existing nuclear waste safe.
Next generation reactors at commercial scale of any kind, would be fine. It's unlikely they'll be worth the money, but we should still produce them. Sadly the US saw fit to block that progress, from Bill Gates own company, because the testing was to be done in China and the US doesn't believe in civilisation, human rights, progress, or climate change. They chose to set us back, and the hope of developing anything in time to be useful for climate change, dwindled to basically zero. Would new reactors be useful? Sure. Will we ever see any significant improvement in the lifetime of anyone who saw this video? Not unless a five year old watched it.
Thorium is no panacea. There are many obstacles (e.g., see the Wikipedia article). Although there has been much discussion of Thorium reactors for 20+ years (particularly after Fukushima), it is telling that nobody has even built a working model.
It's true that Musk / Tesla is disruptive and for that we should thank him. However Gates as a philanthropist is orders of magnitude ahead in terms of raising and using capital for human good not just profit. Musk is a high risk taker who won, good on him. Gates us a data driven philanthropist whose efforts improve humanity. No contest. 😊
I've had a low opinion of Bill Gates ever since he colluded with George H. Bush on the H-1B visas to hire Indian computer programmers instead of hiring American programmers (Immigration Act of 1990 on November 29, 1990). This practice allowed Gates to hire very cheap programmers who were happy to live in squalid conditions bunched up dormitory style in houses or apartments meant for fewer people. Meanwhile, the average pay for American computer programmers dropped as jobs dried up. Thank you, Bill Gates.
Sam, as one gets older they don't necessarily get dumber (I dislike the use of that word as it a perjorative for mutes - non vocal people - didn't know that, did ya?). One just learns to work smarter and not harder. And some have forgotten more than your know. Sit down in meeting with master electrical engineers and you will see that in action. I used to have occasional meetings with the retired Chief Engineer of Quebec Hydro and it was a cerebral sprint every time. I believe he enjoyed it too as it allowed him to "flex".
Gates is the founder of Breakthrough Energy, he loves renewables, but despises Elon so much that he shorted Tesla. Well, I'm no personal Elon the fascist fan, but I love what Tesla is doing for EVs and solar and batteries. Its critical, its game changing, planet saving tech. Billionaires have great responsibility, so when they make mistakes, they are giant, and they look like big fools. Gates 500M$ Tesla stock short loss, was Teslas gain. Gates gambled and he lost bigtime, and so did Elon buying Twitter, a 50% 22B$ pure ego trip loss, making Twitter shareholders richer yet. Elons Twitter trip put him at 13% Tesla ownership, because he cashed in his stock to buy the unprofitable platform. Elon threatening Tesla to take his androids away if they dont overpay him for the tech, is another elon anti Tesla move. We shall see what happens.
What an emotional rant lacking in any use of the rational brain. You should have just left it at “I despise Elon”, because that was your only truthful comment
Gates didn’t short Tesla stock because he despised Elon, he did it to try to make money. Elon didn’t buy Twitter to make money, he bought it to have a platform that maintains free speech, which Twitter was not.
Gates shorted TSLA way back when. So did a lot of people. TSLA was one of the most shorted stocks on the planet. The question is, what's Gates doing now? At least he's doing something, even if his judgment is not that great. His work in healthcare for developing countries was good.
@@alexfunk2047 that's what a glass of Chivas Regal will do. I make no apologies for the error. I could NOT find your YT channel either. Lol. Glad i hurt your feelings Snowflake.
If we are not going to meet the 2° target, we need to start using the surplus energy from renewables (eg where at the moment we turn the turbines off) to start re-capturing C from atmospheric CO2.
It would be better to invest money in grid scale batteries and eliminate peaker natural gas plants. In this way you don't generate any Co2 and meet your needs for electricity.
Lazier! It took the church 400 years to apologize to Galileo. I hope that it could take less than 400 days for people to wake up. Unfortunately according to our present political situation it will take between 40 months and 40 years to catch up to now.
You do not get dumber as you get older. Like all old computers etc .. the rate at which the brain is able to search, find memories, gather the information to make a decision is slower, but your IQ doesn’t drop…
I'm not sure it's true, even if IQ were a measure of intelligence which it isn't because it's a measure of IQ. You can't do the test in any language, you have to speak the language and read and write it to get a result. It's not measuring your raw intelligence. Also, if your brain can't process as fast as it could, you will be able to spend less time on the questions and while they're not theoretically timed, no-one is sitting around for three hours after everyone else left trying to puzzle an answer out. They're really there to let people brag about their ability to answer IQ test questions that they've studied for so it's just an ego boost for sad people. Actually develop a genuine intelligence test, and that'll get interesting.
Because his investment was totally opportunistic because TSLA was being traded on the derivative market where it could be bought, shorted or sold at a profit. The only investment opportunities in Aptera right now are constructive, not opportunistic.
@@alexfunk2047 So you don't think that when Aptera starts production sooner rather than later, that when it goes public that it will not substantialy increse in value?
I ask it concerning Elon, too. Providing the means to Aptera to reach production would cost Elon as much as inviting the founders for a dinner would cost me. It would be a no-brainer for me, if it moved the needle towards our commonly stated goal concerning sustainable transportation.
I think it is great that Bill Gates is more committed to solving climate change than he used to be. He used to be a climate skeptic. He also used to insist that his investment people focusing only on financial gains so he could give the profits to the Gates Foundation to do good. I did not agree with that philosophy, so I actually think he is getting smarter.
Tires may make significant difference on efficiency, ride, noise. They are narrower but they EV specific tires are really good-Hankook EVO Ion tires I tried were very quiet and significantly more efficient (maybe about 5% Model S 19s)
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Every time I watch a you tube video, I click the like button. So important for the content creator. Every creator asks for a like, IT'S FREE to do like people! It helps all your favorite content creators. Go Sam!
YG, I just priced home batteries. They are still over $11,000 US installed! Folks in China can buy an entire, 30 kWh, EV for the price of a 13 kWh Powerwall.
@@freeheeler09 That's right. Something wrong with that. I know this has been the model for a few decades now - to outsource labor because it's cheaper - but it's not a sustainable economic position, when that same country can come in and export cars back into the country you exported your IP from, except now at a fraction of the price that US and European automakers can produce them. Something has to change or US and Euro car makers are toast.
He admitted still having a short position well after Tesla boomed. It wasn’t a one off, it’s well determined slight on Musk. Once TSLA was over $1,000, it wasn’t going bankwupt. That’s just riding the Wall St disinformation roller coaster.
I have a model 3 but not because I believe in anthropogenic global warming. When I was at school I was taught about the big climate temperature fluctuations over the last 2000 years. Driven by sunspot cycles primarily but also orbital eccentricity.
The nukes that are manufactured on 10/day assembly lines will be a major part of the final solution when they eventually arrive. But these nukes are only needed in the end solution where 10 yrs of energy storage becomes an edge case need. We are far from that now and we should not need nukes as long as they are still expensive. Exception, the nukes that burn up spent nuke fuel are good even if they are expensive.
Bill Gates......... I remembered him of Win95, Win 98, Win 98 Second Edition, Win 2000, Win ME......non of it really stable, yet I'm asked to pay full licence fee again and again, not getting what I should. All these were under him.
Maybe you should have bought that great completely 100% functioning product instead? Oh yes, those never existed and still never exist, always bugs in new products these days.
UA-camrs and other internet users are a big drain on the world’s energy system. The internet uses 84 to 143 gigawatts of electricity every year, which amounts to between 3.6 and 6.2 percent of all electricity worldwide.
According to The World Resources Institute, Chinas electricity/heat produces 5616.4 MtCo2e, which equates to 11.67% of global greenhouse gas emissions, maybe he should talk to them?
Why didn't you just use another operating system man? Or buy DOS from another vendor if you didn't like Gates prices? Btw, Gates sold DOS for 40 bucks, compared to Kindall that sold his operating system at the same time for 480 bucks, later lowered to 240 bucks (to compete with Gates lol).
As people get older, they get more themselves. Problem with a lot of smart people who have had success in one area, they move their lessons learned from one field to another, when it might not be appropriate. Bill was a super-competitive guy where he lived to crush his opponent in business. Climate change isn't about winning, or an infinite future of abundance, its about controlling the damage. I give bill credit for trying to help, but he's just another really competitive guy with a lot of money. He tri es to be a good guy but he's fundamentally a rich kid who has never understood how the majority of people live. His science is way above average, but he's not a full time professional, he just doesn't have humility.
Can you provide any references supporting your comment relevant to the latest nuclear power designs like SMR’s which Japan and China have run to “failure” in all kinds of scenarios and are in operation today which includes geomagnetic storm hardening?
Nuclear power plants are vulnerable to electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) and solar events, as they rely on electricity to operate and control their reactors and cooling systems. ³⁴ A large-scale EMP or solar storm could damage or destroy the power grids that supply electricity to the nuclear plants, as well as the backup generators and batteries that are meant to provide emergency power. ³⁴ This could lead to loss of coolant, overheating, meltdown, or even explosion of the nuclear reactors, potentially releasing large amounts of radiation into the environment. ³⁴ Some nuclear power plants have taken measures to harden their systems against EMPs and solar events, such as installing surge protectors, shielding cables, and isolating critical components. ³⁴ However, these measures are not standardized or mandatory, and may not be sufficient to withstand a severe EMP or solar storm. ³⁴ Therefore, the risk of a nuclear disaster caused by an EMP or solar storm remains a serious concern for the safety and security of the world. ³⁴. The sources for the information I quoted are: ³: Death Rays from the Sun? The Carrington Event & Coronal ... - EMP Shield ⁴: The Carrington Event: When Will We Have Another? - Cadence Design Systems Source: (1) Death Rays from the Sun? The Carrington Event & Coronal ... - EMP Shield. www.empshield.com/death-rays-from-the-sun-the-carrington-event-coronal-mass-ejections/. (2) The Carrington Event: When Will We Have Another? - Cadence Design Systems. community.cadence.com/cadence_blogs_8/b/breakfast-bytes/posts/the-carrington-event-when-will-we-have-another. (3) Carrington Event - Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event. (4) The Carrington Event: The largest recorded solar storm in history .... www.livescience.com/carrington-event. (5) undefined. sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/home.html. (6) undefined. sunearthday.nasa.gov/2010/index.php.
@@GabrielNicho It winds up being basically near a push as far as emissions. The batteries are amazingly polluting to make so only uneducated people think it works.
Can’t wait to buy an electric car. We have solar, a Tesla house battery, ❤self reliant on rain water and it hasn’t been easy. Instead of giving fossil fuel polluters tax credits it’s time to begin Garnaut and Sims tax levy so we can get to renewable energy quicker with better outcomes for all.
@@GabrielNicho thanks for that , the only way I got any tax credits was on the discounted price of the battery and solar panels about $3000 on a $19000 outlay. Still not a cheap option at the time. The other thing is who paid out the credits? Was it the taxpayer, in that case what do the big polluters get, rewards only?
@@nick0047It depends on what state you live in also. Don't your energy go back into the system? And the companies themselves are subsidized (that produces and installs the stuff).
Thanks for that. It appears that this is a part of the circular economy. Next will be the electric car with v2x charging. Waiting on outcomes on this here.
If Elon went onto something different instead of cars, I seriously doubt there would be any EV industry. It would probably be limited to a few model of hybrids and that's it!
Gates is right about modular nuclear power. He is right about fighting malaria and polio. The sign of an enlightened individual is the ability to change with new information.
Bill Gates is dead wrong about nuclear fission, since the only actual reason for any nation (including the U.S.) to invest in it has been and still is to create weapons-grade uranium and plutonium. These nuclear fission plants threaten the entire global civilization with extinction as a result. And, the likelihood of our civilization's extinction increases with every additional nuclear fission plant that is constructed. Nuclear fusion powerplants cannot be diverted into weapons grade uranium and plutonium production and, therefore, nuclear FUSION power is worth our pursuing. However, economic fusion power is still at least 10 years away, so we cannot count on fusion to stop our trashing of our atmosphere and ocean with CO2 and other heat trapping gas emissions from our use of fossil fuels (particularly oil, natural gas/methane, propane and coal). Instead, we need to deploy a fee on all production of these fossil fuels immediately, equal to at least 50% of the economic, environmental, social and military costs we will otherwise incur if we were to continue allowing dumping of this pollution for free.
Why would you call the computer help desk for anything other than a computer related issue? He made his money doing PC software. Why does that make him an authority on things that he clearly knows nothing about. STOP ASKING BILLIONAIRES about stuff they know nothing about.
Nuclear power reality; plants are too expensive, take too long, are too fraught with uncertainty to make them a viable investment for anyone. Uncertainties like cost overruns, delays & cancellations. On the other hand solar, wind and other carbon free renewables (and there are lots of them) are low cost, fast (solar alone grew by 107 GW 2023), have cost certainty (actually prices keep dropping precipitously), together with grid scale batteries (even when combined are still cheaper than nuclear), greater electric generation certainty. Remember that France, the great champion of nuclear power, had lots of trouble keeping its nuclear plants going in 2022 and 2023 because of very high temperatures and droughts affecting the river water intakes at the plants. France's back up power had to make up the load, which were gas peaker plants powered by natural gas. The promise of nuclear is never what it delivers in the real world. It also tends to lock in sky high electric bills for decades. Something that wind and solar don't do. Austin Energy (a non-profit electric utility owned by the city of Austin, Texas) dropped its electric bills by 60% once it had finished with the financing costs of its wind turbines. That would never happen with nuclear. Wind as a fuel is free.
Currently battery tech is too heavy for long haul flights. Green hydrogen takes up too much space. Maybe blimps would work but would be slow. Interesting space to watch develop
Everybody is getting flack today for anything they say. Gates, Musk, etc. Bill Gates recently said some very good things, IMO. (On the other hand, Sam, comparing those great little Peng flying cars to jet liners traveling 1,000's of miles with 100's of passengers on many flights ... was pretty weak too.) He's certainly not perfect though, but I'm generally pleased with the Bill & Melinda Foundation's work. And, of course, climate change is occurring. Tesla's contributions have been outstanding and definitely should be recognized formally (as well as indirectly by their obvious disruption for the good in the car and energy businesses).
I'm a long-time fan of nuclear energy. With that in mind, I don't think that there is a bright future for nuclear -- at least in the next 10-20 years. What we have now with renewables is steadily getting better. Nuclear energy is a money sink pulling away from renewables. The fossil fuel companies and related/dependent companies benefit the most (for now).
He is a creep
His friendship with Jeffery Epstein makes that concrete. Melinda also thinks he is a creep.
So's Elon.
The "I planted some trees or bought carbon credit so I can burn all the fossil fuel I want and still call myself carbon neutral" has got to be one of the biggest BS arguments of our time.
Yep. Gates is a monumental hypocrite
Hey is that what Qantas is doing?
Is all BS. One volcano eruption can belt out more toxic emissions than all of mankind has since the Industrial Revolution. But they will find a way to TAX you over your minuscule insignificant footprint. No climate alarmist prediction has ever come true. It’s all fear mongering.
We always need to work on pollution (because, we LIVE here…) but to think governments will be able to control the climate if they tax us enough is the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the human race.
i can get on board with the planting trees one i think, but the buying credits thing is total nonsense lol. I dont know much about the tree thing, that could certainly be dumb too i just dont know the info on that
Yes, planting trees or better yet encouraging alge growth are wonderful, but A net carbon footprint is nonsense and just gives the worst polluters something to trumpet on their website after they spend .00001% of their profits to buy carbon credits after decimating the environment.
Kudos electric Viking you're saving the planet one video at a time thank you
Gates has all the credibility of a three dollar bill.
I was living in Seattle as Bill Gates and Microsoft were taking off. I really respected him and looked at him as someone who was doing a lot of good for the world. I have the opposite view now.
My opinion of Mr. Gates? EDLIN.
He stole the Microsoft IP from others.
Same here, his motives and actions to be questioned.
Gates was a POS from the start he wrecked better products using so many different methods it was like a mission he had to make software worse. He is a very succesful pos.
@@alexfunk2047 He didn't technically "steal" it. He bought DOS for fifty grand, IIRC.
Bill Gates is disappointing. He has this global investment fund and he does so little actual good with all the money.
After his divorce his ex-wife has made more of an impact with her money.
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...that she got from him.
And she divorced him because of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein…
So how do you suggest he would do more "good" lol? And how did he fall short?
@@GabrielNicho What good has he done? He is helping all of us by buying all the farmland?
Bill gates Has been wrecking society his entire life starting with his monoplistic style with Microsoft.
We wouldnt have an EV market today if it wasn't for Tesla and Elon Musk
The Legacy Car Manufacture has said and continue to say that public dont want EV's and you cant make EV's profitably etc etc and Tesla has proved them wrong and demonstrated that you can make desirable EV's, profitably in every market.
The Legacy guys have run out of excuses
This is very true.
@@timothykeith1367 I doubt it, can you link me to an article, specifically to this, as every new start company has cash issues, especially in the car industry, all the major legacy manufacturers have had $ Bns off of the government in loans they never had to pay back, why is Tesla different in your eyes
@@timothykeith1367 Tesla certainly dont need it now as they have $10's Bns in the bank, They are the most profitable companies in the world, whilst Legacy Auto's have mountains of debt, tesla make a very nice 20% margin on their cars, Legacy has very small margins and need their dealers to rely on servicing to make their money back. There is no requirement from Tesla to have you service your car, at all.
@@stevehayward1854Dude, Teslas main income has come from those credits other car companies have to pay Tesla because they make gasoline cars...can't remember what they are called right now.
@@GabrielNicho The credits has been a lot but the main difference is that Tesla can make a car in 10mins and VW takes 30mins to do the same.
Teslas profits come from a much more efficient production system using giga castings to do away with hundreds of small body panels that make up the under floor rear and front, with the battery being structural it has reduced the component pasrt of the whole floor pan to 3, they have been able to remove hundreds of robots from the production line and reduce the factory floor, dramatically therefore reducing cost. The material used in the giga casting was developed by Elon's SpaceX company
Bill Gates is perfect example of the type of person that would rather do thing that "appear good" instead of actually doing good.
I agree. This is a big ass problem. Billions of dollars in research funding and venture capital are going to go to things that don't have a snowball's chance in hell to making any kind of difference in climate change. Dead end technologies being implemented such as Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS), all hydrogen, nuclear and more. With CCS the costs are astronomical for the small amount of carbon that they manage to get out of the air, or scrub from smoke stacks. With hydrogen getting it from current sources such as steam reformed natural gas or coal isn't green. CO2 is just released while trying to isolate the hydrogen. The problem with "green" hydrogen, hydrogen extracted from water using electricity from solar, wind etc. (electrolasys), is far less efficient than just using the electricity directly. In most cases, rather than going with "green" hydrogen, it would be easier and far more efficient to just go electric. The new idea with nuclear is small nuclear power plants in hopes that this will reduce the cost of implementing nuclear. What it doesn't consider is that by having for example four small nuclear power plants rather than one large one, we've managed to increase the likelihood of having a serious nuclear accident fourfold. And there is no guarantee that making many smaller nuclear power plant is going to be any cheaper than building fewer large ones.
Bill Gates is doing it for his own self interest.
Yep 100% Bill Gates falls into the category of those who need to Grow Food Yourselves. (As Matt Pocius puts it. I love that guy!!) ROFL!!
Gates has spent more money on keeping people fed and alive than anyone else in history. And you didn't know that because he doesn't brag about it. He tossed billions into COVID vaccine production facilities just in case the techniques being developed actually worked. It was a 'just in case' expenditure. He had little probability of making a dime from it, but he did it anyway, because it 'might' save a few million lives. Your comment reflects your opinion, not the facts.
@@JadeSea-x1b I mean, he owns an awful lot of farms so...
bill gates said one good thing in his life when he said "no one should have as much money as I do"
Theres nothing wrong with one person having that much money, in the right hands a rich man can do a lot of good, like Elon who has shown the world that it's possible to make desirable and profitably, he has restored free speech to the internet and revolutionised space flight.
But he wants more of it
@stevehayward1854 I think you are spot on with your commentary. Someone else said something like... but he still wants more. I would say that you can best decide a man's intentions by observing what he is both saying and doing. Elon lives a humble life in a normal house, and not in a mansion.
@@tonysurber9111 His goal is to transition us to clean energy, clean transport, free speech and establishing mankind on Mars, and his only desire is to establish companies that can achieve that.
@@alarjak Who, Gates or Musk ?
Gates desire is for more personal wealth, Elon is to establish companies that can provide clean energy, clean transport, free speech, providing the internet to everyone, revolutionising space flight to establish mankind on Mars, to save mankind from extinction
He's jealous Elon is now the King of the Hill. 👑
Jai Hinduja. Nah, E long can never catch up with him if the E long did not receive massive EV subsidies from Xi.
Tesla is the only reason we have EV’s today at all.
All the Chinese EV companies are using the tech that Tesla made available for free.
There would be no EVs for 50 years at least without Tesla. All OEM’s are being dragged along kicking & screaming.
You are factually incorrect.
the nissan leaf appeared in 2010
I’ve said a long time ago EV cars are like cell phones from the 90’s they are going to get a million times better!
I had a Nissan Leaf in 2011. 😅
@@FrankGallagherr and that's why I'll wait.
Gates ... has lost all respect he had 20 years ago.
I've never actually met someone who respected him. What's that like?
The windows OS not sleeping and hibernating incorrectly wasted and waists so much energy it’s insane.
Most businesses people I know leave their computer on overnight because it takes 10 minutes for corporate updates every morning if you turn off your computer.
Yes. A human lives a bit under 700,000 hours on average. Every 700,000 hours wasted on inefficient Windows code, crashes, unnecessary reboots, patches that won't install and so on, is effectively equivalent to an instance of manslaughter. Making Windows just a fraction better would save energy, save lives, get more done from the most capable people who can contribute the most, reduce stress levels and reduce global warming from a number of factors (electricity used, new computers bought to cope with sloppy code, human time and therefore food wasted etc etc). Not that I don't think he can also help to cure polio. Just that if he drove MS to actually make better software, it'd quite likely save more energy/money/time/lives than he can with the same money elsewhere. Although Polio is still a higher priority since once gone, it's gone forever like smallpox.
Friend of Jeffrey Epstein, need I say more.........
This.
So was Musk
@@ernieschatz3783 they did meet thats true, but no evidence they were friends. Unlike Trump, Clinton and Gates that have been well documented. Lets stick to the facts please.
Yes, please say more - some facts.
@@illargi100Ehh lol, Gates had one meeting with Epstein (in a New York hotel), and then met him twice more later (quicker meets same hotel). So would hardly call that friends lol.
I have never used fossil fuels to heat my home 60 miles south of Canada, have been a net seller of solar power since 2017 and driving aEV for 3 years. Working on switching from wood heat to a well based geothermal heat pump for heating.
Keep up your work informing us all about developments in the green space! Cheers
That is impressive. I envy you! Well done!
@impressive, except he mentioned wood heating, which produces incredible volumes of CO2.
And smoke if done poorly. Said nothing about rocket stove or similar, insulation.
(Not so long ago, we used many tonnes of wood for old farm house. It’s a deflection to say it’d rot down anyway.)
@@iandavies4853give him the credit he deserves for making a huge effort. He is after all going for the ground source heat pump and the wood he has burnt was not fossil and probably collected a few meters away from his boiler.
There is a saying don't make the perfect enemy of the good.
Predictions of Bill Gates have always been for laughing. E.g. after introduction of the first iPhone he said, that nobody would buy phone for 500 USD. 😂😂
That was Ballmer...and it was before they started a payment plan.
Gates isn't getting dumber. He started out that way.
No he didn't, he was once a brilliant man. He's just lost his way.
Well, thanks, two days after my 75th birthday
Gates seems to be stuck in the failures of past and can't move beyond that past.
Yep going against what he says, totally ludicrous
Cheers to tesla, not perfect, they are improving and i couldn't imagine owning an ev with less charging infrastructure.
I love my 21 m3lr [73k miles so far] and I've had a moments of "wtf elon". Much less than the wtf moments brought by my past ford, toyota, vw, Mitsubishi, saturn, chevy or gm.
Even the price drops since my purchase do not take away from the value & lifetime cost savings i receive. =b but excited to spend less upfront on the next ev.
He shorted Tesla and lost BIG. He is emotional about Tesla.
Pretty sure he made money considering how Tesla has been crashing lately.
If there is to be investment in nuclear, it should be in Thorium reactors where Thorium is cheaper and more abundant than Uranium, can be used more safely because runaway chain reactions aren’t a problem, and can be used, apparently, to render existing nuclear waste safe.
Next generation reactors at commercial scale of any kind, would be fine. It's unlikely they'll be worth the money, but we should still produce them. Sadly the US saw fit to block that progress, from Bill Gates own company, because the testing was to be done in China and the US doesn't believe in civilisation, human rights, progress, or climate change. They chose to set us back, and the hope of developing anything in time to be useful for climate change, dwindled to basically zero. Would new reactors be useful? Sure. Will we ever see any significant improvement in the lifetime of anyone who saw this video? Not unless a five year old watched it.
Thorium is no panacea. There are many obstacles (e.g., see the Wikipedia article). Although there has been much discussion of Thorium reactors for 20+ years (particularly after Fukushima), it is telling that nobody has even built a working model.
It's true that Musk / Tesla is disruptive and for that we should thank him. However Gates as a philanthropist is orders of magnitude ahead in terms of raising and using capital for human good not just profit. Musk is a high risk taker who won, good on him. Gates us a data driven philanthropist whose efforts improve humanity. No contest. 😊
I've had a low opinion of Bill Gates ever since he colluded with George H. Bush on the H-1B visas to hire Indian computer programmers instead of hiring American programmers (Immigration Act of 1990 on November 29, 1990). This practice allowed Gates to hire very cheap programmers who were happy to live in squalid conditions bunched up dormitory style in houses or apartments meant for fewer people. Meanwhile, the average pay for American computer programmers dropped as jobs dried up. Thank you, Bill Gates.
Doesn't gates realise, he'll be gone soon! Do something worthwhile before you go😮
Yes he did wrong then; that doesn't necessarily mean what he is saying NOW is wrong.
Sam, as one gets older they don't necessarily get dumber (I dislike the use of that word as it a perjorative for mutes - non vocal people - didn't know that, did ya?). One just learns to work smarter and not harder. And some have forgotten more than your know.
Sit down in meeting with master electrical engineers and you will see that in action. I used to have occasional meetings with the retired Chief Engineer of Quebec Hydro and it was a cerebral sprint every time. I believe he enjoyed it too as it allowed him to "flex".
Yes. Our brains ossify, but the accumulation of experience compensates largely for that.
Agreed. As Alex says. Some suffer degeneration, many remain sharp. It’s ageist.
Not unlike saying a muscled jock is a joke. ;-)
Nuclear is too expensive. The money is better spent on renewables and battery storage.
Gates is the founder of Breakthrough Energy, he loves renewables, but despises Elon so much that he shorted Tesla. Well, I'm no personal Elon the fascist fan, but I love what Tesla is doing for EVs and solar and batteries. Its critical, its game changing, planet saving tech. Billionaires have great responsibility, so when they make mistakes, they are giant, and they look like big fools. Gates 500M$ Tesla stock short loss, was Teslas gain. Gates gambled and he lost bigtime, and so did Elon buying Twitter, a 50% 22B$ pure ego trip loss, making Twitter shareholders richer yet. Elons Twitter trip put him at 13% Tesla ownership, because he cashed in his stock to buy the unprofitable platform. Elon threatening Tesla to take his androids away if they dont overpay him for the tech, is another elon anti Tesla move. We shall see what happens.
You're so misinformed about Elon. 🙄
"Over pay him"
You need to check out what the concensus was when the pay package was first agreed and what he achieved for Tesla to get that
Stop your blabbing
What an emotional rant lacking in any use of the rational brain. You should have just left it at “I despise Elon”, because that was your only truthful comment
Gates didn’t short Tesla stock because he despised Elon, he did it to try to make money. Elon didn’t buy Twitter to make money, he bought it to have a platform that maintains free speech, which Twitter was not.
Gates shorted TSLA way back when. So did a lot of people. TSLA was one of the most shorted stocks on the planet. The question is, what's Gates doing now? At least he's doing something, even if his judgment is not that great. His work in healthcare for developing countries was good.
GAtes COVID vaccines a big reason why we had the vaccines so quickly.
I don’t believe a single word that comes out of that evil man.
If people get dumber as they age,whats in store for Sam? He, at present, lacks the ability to pronounce simple words correctly .
Maybe he knows how to punctuate commas correctly.
Sorry, Robert, I couldn't find YOUR UA-cam channel.
@@alexfunk2047 that's what a glass of Chivas Regal will do. I make no apologies for the error. I could NOT find your YT channel either. Lol. Glad i hurt your feelings
Snowflake.
Please stay on your Fox News.
@@alexfunk2047 I don't generally agree with anything that robertfonovic3551 says, but I didn't see anything wrong with his commas.
Had to make political didn't you. At least you've shown your true colours. Red red and red@@Michael-yi4mc
If we are not going to meet the 2° target, we need to start using the surplus energy from renewables (eg where at the moment we turn the turbines off) to start re-capturing C from atmospheric CO2.
Don't bother with CO2 capture, remove the heat directly. Cheap and easy.
@@anthonylosego Remove the heat? How?
Giant solar shades ar the L1 Lagrange point of course! Duh! Lol
It would be better to invest money in grid scale batteries and eliminate peaker natural gas plants. In this way you don't generate any Co2 and meet your needs for electricity.
Great video Sam
He has been so rich for so long that he is completely disconnected from reality. He lives in a weird bubble .
Lazier! It took the church 400 years to apologize to Galileo. I hope that it could take less than 400 days for people to wake up. Unfortunately according to our present political situation it will take between 40 months and 40 years to catch up to now.
You do not get dumber as you get older. Like all old computers etc .. the rate at which the brain is able to search, find memories, gather the information to make a decision is slower, but your IQ doesn’t drop…
it does for some people, lets be honest, but not all of us...lol
I'm not sure it's true, even if IQ were a measure of intelligence which it isn't because it's a measure of IQ. You can't do the test in any language, you have to speak the language and read and write it to get a result. It's not measuring your raw intelligence. Also, if your brain can't process as fast as it could, you will be able to spend less time on the questions and while they're not theoretically timed, no-one is sitting around for three hours after everyone else left trying to puzzle an answer out. They're really there to let people brag about their ability to answer IQ test questions that they've studied for so it's just an ego boost for sad people. Actually develop a genuine intelligence test, and that'll get interesting.
Every time I see a context message from UN, I click upvote
Sense Bill was able to invest 500 million in Tesla about 10 years ago, why can't he invest 50 million in Aptera now?
Because his investment was totally opportunistic because TSLA was being traded on the derivative market where it could be bought, shorted or sold at a profit.
The only investment opportunities in Aptera right now are constructive, not opportunistic.
@@alexfunk2047 So you don't think that when Aptera starts production sooner rather than later, that when it goes public that it will not substantialy increse in value?
I ask it concerning Elon, too. Providing the means to Aptera to reach production would cost Elon as much as inviting the founders for a dinner would cost me. It would be a no-brainer for me, if it moved the needle towards our commonly stated goal concerning sustainable transportation.
Did Gates invest in Tesla? Thought he invested in BYD with Buffett.
How much is enough? $1bbn? $2bbn? $5bbn?
Why work? Why take on projects others could work on?
I think it is great that Bill Gates is more committed to solving climate change than he used to be. He used to be a climate skeptic. He also used to insist that his investment people focusing only on financial gains so he could give the profits to the Gates Foundation to do good. I did not agree with that philosophy, so I actually think he is getting smarter.
Thank God Microsoft had to get rid of Bill Gates because of his creepy habits.
124 billion, and not a penny for Aptera.
Anyone that says they’re saving the Planet is full of shit.
Afternoon mate
Tires may make significant difference on efficiency, ride, noise. They are narrower but they EV specific tires are really good-Hankook EVO Ion tires I tried were very quiet and significantly more efficient (maybe about 5% Model S 19s)
Yes! Thanks for the tip!
There is little point in having a quiet electric car if you have to listen to a lot of road noise.
Vacinnes aren't a waste of money.
Does Bill think he has a key to the PEARLY GATES ?
Should ask Epstein about what he thinks about Gates.
Gates: What you need to know. Allegedly, He was a guest of Epstein and Honey Trap. Allegedly, His wife divrced him when confronted by the evidence. Allegedly, He is captured by Big Oil ... If he doesnt support BO Allegedly, the pictures of him and various salacious videos may appear ...
Well, we could, but he's dead now *smirk* BG
Every time I watch a you tube video, I click the like button. So important for the content creator. Every creator asks for a like, IT'S FREE to do like people! It helps all your favorite content creators. Go Sam!
If battery prices are now $50/kWh,
And: 'The battery is the most expensive part of an EV'
Then expensive EVs are a BS scam.
YG, I just priced home batteries. They are still over $11,000 US installed! Folks in China can buy an entire, 30 kWh, EV for the price of a 13 kWh Powerwall.
@@freeheeler09 That's right. Something wrong with that. I know this has been the model for a few decades now - to outsource labor because it's cheaper - but it's not a sustainable economic position, when that same country can come in and export cars back into the country you exported your IP from, except now at a fraction of the price that US and European automakers can produce them. Something has to change or US and Euro car makers are toast.
Lion or LFP? Apples and oranges. Though they need more LFP for Powerwall for sure. These supplies don't turn on a dime.
Instead of using the money to short Tesla, he could have used the money to invest in help. Tis a hypocrite
Bill Gates greed doesn't inspire trust
Great video as always, but I think your audio is quieter than average; I have to turn it up from 5 to 7 or 8.
Did you know that the Rimac Nevera drives 275 km/h ... backwards...
Nuclear is too expensive and slow to build to solve our current problems and just sihons investment away from green , sustainable technologies.
Understand Bill Gates shorted Tesla when it went over $1000 in 2021
So he made a profit on his short, I expect.
@@alexfunk2047 of course he did
He admitted still having a short position well after Tesla boomed. It wasn’t a one off, it’s well determined slight on Musk.
Once TSLA was over $1,000, it wasn’t going bankwupt. That’s just riding the Wall St disinformation roller coaster.
He wants us to eat insects
Forget about billy boy...waste of space time Continuum
Another billionaire who doesn’t know nearly as much as he thinks he does….
He needs and Elon need to get together and talk - they would be incredible
Let’s not forget that Gates lied about shorting Tesla when asked about it.
Maybe Sam should stick to batteries. At least until he makes his first billion.
Bill Gates was very good at some things. He is ignorant or foolish about others. However, he ignores that.
Adaptation should be the only priority, unless you think humans can control the universe.
Any chance you can decouple your mic from your desk, LOTS of boom and bangs being transfered through
I have a model 3 but not because I believe in anthropogenic global warming. When I was at school I was taught about the big climate temperature fluctuations over the last 2000 years. Driven by sunspot cycles primarily but also orbital eccentricity.
He's finally getting his head out of his #ss. Following Elons lead with promoting nuclear power !
I trust Bill gates like I trust a cat wouldn't hunt when hungry.
What about Warren Buffett? He's old and he sold BYD Shares before it went down. Okay now you can say his young team is doing it 😜
Bill Gates should take the lead and do for hydrogen as Elon has for Electric, if he believes in it so much.
The nukes that are manufactured on 10/day assembly lines will be a major part of the final solution when they eventually arrive. But these nukes are only needed in the end solution where 10 yrs of energy storage becomes an edge case need. We are far from that now and we should not need nukes as long as they are still expensive. Exception, the nukes that burn up spent nuke fuel are good even if they are expensive.
Bill Gates......... I remembered him of Win95, Win 98, Win 98 Second Edition, Win 2000, Win ME......non of it really stable, yet I'm asked to pay full licence fee again and again, not getting what I should. All these were under him.
Maybe you should have bought that great completely 100% functioning product instead? Oh yes, those never existed and still never exist, always bugs in new products these days.
UA-camrs and other internet users are a big drain on the world’s energy system. The internet uses 84 to 143 gigawatts of electricity every year, which amounts to between 3.6 and 6.2 percent of all electricity worldwide.
According to The World Resources Institute, Chinas electricity/heat produces 5616.4 MtCo2e, which equates to 11.67% of global greenhouse gas emissions, maybe he should talk to them?
And remember, he obtained his wealth by selling extortion-ware.
Why didn't you just use another operating system man? Or buy DOS from another vendor if you didn't like Gates prices? Btw, Gates sold DOS for 40 bucks, compared to Kindall that sold his operating system at the same time for 480 bucks, later lowered to 240 bucks (to compete with Gates lol).
@@GabrielNicho Personally, I don’t use any of Microsoft products for decades.
But I am confronted by companies that suffer from the BSA-gestapo.
As people get older, they get more themselves. Problem with a lot of smart people who have had success in one area, they move their lessons learned from one field to another, when it might not be appropriate. Bill was a super-competitive guy where he lived to crush his opponent in business. Climate change isn't about winning, or an infinite future of abundance, its about controlling the damage. I give bill credit for trying to help, but he's just another really competitive guy with a lot of money. He tri es to be a good guy but he's fundamentally a rich kid who has never understood how the majority of people live.
His science is way above average, but he's not a full time professional, he just doesn't have humility.
Gates might have shorted Tesla to invest in Toyota, an alternative green ?!
Nuclear-power is a potentially loose canon... one Carrington type event could result in a large number of reactor disasters
Can you provide any references supporting your comment relevant to the latest nuclear power designs like SMR’s which Japan and China have run to “failure” in all kinds of scenarios and are in operation today which includes geomagnetic storm hardening?
Nuclear power plants are vulnerable to electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) and solar events, as they rely on electricity to operate and control their reactors and cooling systems. ³⁴ A large-scale EMP or solar storm could damage or destroy the power grids that supply electricity to the nuclear plants, as well as the backup generators and batteries that are meant to provide emergency power. ³⁴ This could lead to loss of coolant, overheating, meltdown, or even explosion of the nuclear reactors, potentially releasing large amounts of radiation into the environment. ³⁴
Some nuclear power plants have taken measures to harden their systems against EMPs and solar events, such as installing surge protectors, shielding cables, and isolating critical components. ³⁴ However, these measures are not standardized or mandatory, and may not be sufficient to withstand a severe EMP or solar storm. ³⁴ Therefore, the risk of a nuclear disaster caused by an EMP or solar storm remains a serious concern for the safety and security of the world. ³⁴.
The sources for the information I quoted are:
³: Death Rays from the Sun? The Carrington Event & Coronal ... - EMP Shield
⁴: The Carrington Event: When Will We Have Another? - Cadence Design Systems
Source:
(1) Death Rays from the Sun? The Carrington Event & Coronal ... - EMP Shield. www.empshield.com/death-rays-from-the-sun-the-carrington-event-coronal-mass-ejections/.
(2) The Carrington Event: When Will We Have Another? - Cadence Design Systems. community.cadence.com/cadence_blogs_8/b/breakfast-bytes/posts/the-carrington-event-when-will-we-have-another.
(3) Carrington Event - Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event.
(4) The Carrington Event: The largest recorded solar storm in history .... www.livescience.com/carrington-event.
(5) undefined. sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/home.html.
(6) undefined. sunearthday.nasa.gov/2010/index.php.
Evil. No truth . .only lies.
Good news story in Twiggy Forest ridiculing hydrogen for mining trucks.
It’s a huge turn-around, based on evidence.
Might be hope for him yet.
They're investing in tech that doesn't work or takes a shit ton of pollution and mining to build.
Like Solar cells and electric cars? What doesn't work exactly?
@@GabrielNicho It winds up being basically near a push as far as emissions. The batteries are amazingly polluting to make so only uneducated people think it works.
dont let bill upset you,...he is one of the biggest tools on the planet.....
Can’t wait to buy an electric car. We have solar, a Tesla house battery, ❤self reliant on rain water and it hasn’t been easy. Instead of giving fossil fuel polluters tax credits it’s time to begin Garnaut and Sims tax levy so we can get to renewable energy quicker with better outcomes for all.
They aren't given tax credits...you are given tax credits for your solar and batteries and so on.
@@GabrielNicho thanks for that , the only way I got any tax credits was on the discounted price of the battery and solar panels about $3000 on a $19000 outlay. Still not a cheap option at the time. The other thing is who paid out the credits?
Was it the taxpayer, in that case what do the big polluters get, rewards only?
@@nick0047It depends on what state you live in also. Don't your energy go back into the system? And the companies themselves are subsidized (that produces and installs the stuff).
Thanks for that. It appears that this is a part of the circular economy. Next will be the electric car with v2x charging. Waiting on outcomes on this here.
If Elon went onto something different instead of cars, I seriously doubt there would be any EV industry. It would probably be limited to a few model of hybrids and that's it!
Gates 🤷♂️
Gates is right about modular nuclear power. He is right about fighting malaria and polio. The sign of an enlightened individual is the ability to change with new information.
I dont think he’s right
Bill Gates is dead wrong about nuclear fission, since the only actual reason for any nation (including the U.S.) to invest in it has been and still is to create weapons-grade uranium and plutonium. These nuclear fission plants threaten the entire global civilization with extinction as a result. And, the likelihood of our civilization's extinction increases with every additional nuclear fission plant that is constructed. Nuclear fusion powerplants cannot be diverted into weapons grade uranium and plutonium production and, therefore, nuclear FUSION power is worth our pursuing. However, economic fusion power is still at least 10 years away, so we cannot count on fusion to stop our trashing of our atmosphere and ocean with CO2 and other heat trapping gas emissions from our use of fossil fuels (particularly oil, natural gas/methane, propane and coal). Instead, we need to deploy a fee on all production of these fossil fuels immediately, equal to at least 50% of the economic, environmental, social and military costs we will otherwise incur if we were to continue allowing dumping of this pollution for free.
You know - you could just wear a shirt with the words "sucker" on it.
Why would you call the computer help desk for anything other than a computer related issue? He made his money doing PC software. Why does that make him an authority on things that he clearly knows nothing about. STOP ASKING BILLIONAIRES about stuff they know nothing about.
Nuclear power reality; plants are too expensive, take too long, are too fraught with uncertainty to make them a viable investment for anyone. Uncertainties like cost overruns, delays & cancellations. On the other hand solar, wind and other carbon free renewables (and there are lots of them) are low cost, fast (solar alone grew by 107 GW 2023), have cost certainty (actually prices keep dropping precipitously), together with grid scale batteries (even when combined are still cheaper than nuclear), greater electric generation certainty. Remember that France, the great champion of nuclear power, had lots of trouble keeping its nuclear plants going in 2022 and 2023 because of very high temperatures and droughts affecting the river water intakes at the plants. France's back up power had to make up the load, which were gas peaker plants powered by natural gas. The promise of nuclear is never what it delivers in the real world. It also tends to lock in sky high electric bills for decades. Something that wind and solar don't do. Austin Energy (a non-profit electric utility owned by the city of Austin, Texas) dropped its electric bills by 60% once it had finished with the financing costs of its wind turbines. That would never happen with nuclear. Wind as a fuel is free.
Currently battery tech is too heavy for long haul flights. Green hydrogen takes up too much space. Maybe blimps would work but would be slow. Interesting space to watch develop
Bill Gates is a software geek & a good salesman.
That is an unusual combination.
So is Elon Musk but Bill Gates has done very little with his fortune since he sold Microsoft and look what Elon has done since selling PayPal
Never liked bill always seems to be self serving even if he claims to be a humanitarian.
Everybody is getting flack today for anything they say. Gates, Musk, etc. Bill Gates recently said some very good things, IMO. (On the other hand, Sam, comparing those great little Peng flying cars to jet liners traveling 1,000's of miles with 100's of passengers on many flights ... was pretty weak too.) He's certainly not perfect though, but I'm generally pleased with the Bill & Melinda Foundation's work. And, of course, climate change is occurring. Tesla's contributions have been outstanding and definitely should be recognized formally (as well as indirectly by their obvious disruption for the good in the car and energy businesses).
I'm very disappointed Sam. I'm not sure why you took this topic. Do we really need to start turning on each other. This does not help the cause.
Sam turned woke, or so it seems...
So yea Bill Gates on the up and up. I personally dont trust anything that Gates comes up with
Bill Gates?! Yeah, sure. You want to die on that hill?
No, but when I die I'd prefer not to die as Elon's guinea pig on Mars.
Cleaner jet fuel an important near term improvement. Battery ong-range flight is decades away.
Or: simply avoid unnecessary movements. (Both people and goods)
This will give huge benefits to China automakers.
I'm a long-time fan of nuclear energy. With that in mind, I don't think that there is a bright future for nuclear -- at least in the next 10-20 years. What we have now with renewables is steadily getting better.
Nuclear energy is a money sink pulling away from renewables. The fossil fuel companies and related/dependent companies benefit the most (for now).