This was 8 years ago. If we all just starting constructing nuclear plants back then, by now most of that first wave of plants would have been finished, and most countries would now be generating mostly co2 free, cheap power like France is.
It's 10 years ago at this point. Here in the Philippines, I've been saying more than a decade back that my country must start investing in nuclear energy. Up to now, I'm still saying it!
The sad truth is that we already had a GENERATION IV reactor design prototyped at ORNL back in the 1960's and it successfully ran for about 7 years. Too bad Bill doesn't invest in the LFTR, because it avoids the transuranic waste and proliferation issues associated with Uranium/Plutonium Fast Breeders, avoids solid fuel designs (expensive, in efficient), and uses a base fuel (Th-232) which is much more available and can be applied in a low cost, passively safe, lower pressure (near atm) design.
people might be ranting about how bill gates don't know about lithium batteries , but it is not economic to build batteries. lithium batteries have very limited life and building hydrogen plants is extremely difficult. He did his research and invested billions. Educate yourself people.
@@hrthrhs Uranium 235 is in very limited supply and it's expensive, creates a lot of pollution to extract. process and enrich. Thorium, on the other hand, is just a waste product of existing rare earth extraction processes and it's 100% Th232 - no need for enrichment
Society’s rejection of Nuclear power was a massive mistake, and the environment has payed dearly for it as we continue to rely on fossil fuels for our electricity
Having worked in nuclear industry, in R&D, I have a different opinion. There were problems with the plant designs which small modifications could not address. My opinion is, the US politics and industry momentum, following TMI and even today, would/will not allow the development of new/Gen 4 reactors - reactors that are walk-away safe, address waste storage, and other benefits was/is not happening in the US. Also, even if we had the design it is unlikely it could profitably be licensed and built in the US. For example, the CEO of chevron recently said that it is unlikely we will ever build another oil refinery in the US. Again, my opinion, but I believe that there some possible real benefits to our current condition. It doesn't look like the US will, but other nations are working much harder to design Gen 4 reactors - the US is doing better, but there's still great resistance. The fact that this was years ago but limited progress is significant. I'm hopeful for Gates in Wyoming, but... I'm hopeful we'll see some 'real change'. There are a lot of people working to make it happen.
this guy has an answer for everything, energy, vaccines, technology(5g) tesla had put together the use of free energy and we/re following these muppets dc
Btw I don't know much about the subject but wikipedia says that after the Fukushima nuclear accident, Germany and Italy will close all their nuclear reactors. The problem with solar from what I know is capturing the energy, storing it and also using it efficiently but there's actually a tremendous amount of it so it's not that solar is not good but we suck on using it. Also there is a list on wiki again on nuclear and it's pretty big...it's not an aircraft accident or something small is nuclear
It seems to me with the prices for electricity in places like california (0.35 to 0.51 per kwh) for the top residential rates then the payback period for $2/watt solar panels you can buy from amazon is under 6000 hours of use. if you figure 200 x 10 hour days per year, that would be 3 years payback. if if you say you only get half of rated output, that is 6 years. also Solar thermal is very inexpensive for the heat energy produced. It does not seem impractical to me
LFTR Reactors are actually quite small. They don't have those great big cooling towers that Uranium Fast Breed Reactors have to steam cool the chamber. We don't have the technology to have powerful and efficient Solar Panels, but there is study into Nantenna and i do support the research into it. But LFTR technology exits now, is far more efficient than current Solar Power Technology and has been dismissed for far too long.
gates is hardly green his house is as big as a battleship and he backs and funds monsanto one of the worst polluters (glysophphate) on the planet. what we need is a depression something i advocated in the milwaukee journal in 74.
why do you push dangerous vaccines bill that sterilize blacks ???? when giving clean water will be much cheaper and save many many more ??? ,or is it not about saving lives ?
Bill Gates like so many others, has not done his homework. I encourage him and others to check out these two companies. Bioroot Energy LLC and Standard Alcohol Company of America. If we want cheap abundant energy all we have to do is invest in proven EPA approved technology... alcohol instead of oil.
Most likely a hypocrite who knows that there are phenomena which violate the law of energy conservation, some of them PRACTICALLY USEFUL. My email: htg@iteria.pl
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It is possible to produce superior performance provided you do something different from the majority. However most of us tend to pay more attention to the shiniest position in the market to the cost of proper diversification.
It's one for disagreeing with me & giving me your opinion or critixizing mines. But there is no need to call me an idiot. Just like anyone else the foundation off my knowledge starts somewhere.
Bill is honest about how difficult it is for new forms of energy that is cheap and environment friendly. 50 or 75 years is a good estimate for the future.
+Naimul Haq Not when it's has already been developed and ready to be designed into a working application from a portable system, to powering a refit power plant. The difficult part is trying to tell people and getting people like Bill Gates to hear about it. When did Fukushima melt down? I designed a new power system back the to re-power that island nation. I tried the .W.H., Oprah, Al Gore, and so on to interview the project, zip. Mr. Bill Gates many times. zip. They are all set on the course they want and being rich, all of them, look at to future bottom line on their investments, all part of their entertainment. To show a possible risk to investment, is not going to go over well. Hence no reply's. Crazy inventor, me? In case your wondering, no, passionate - driven to get true green abundant energy out in the world today. God Bless, Kevin Kinney
Naimul Haq It's not only possible, but it is easy to do. I could do it, to be so crystal clear, a person who knows a screw driver is a Drink, would get it, so you bet, I could. Thanks for asking.
Gates is wrong about the 10,000 year life of carbon thing. Atmospheric atomic tests have shown that the lifetime of excess atmospheric carbon is about 20 years.
One of the most profoundly beneficial things wealthy philanthropists could do for humanity would be to create a billion dollar prize for anyone who can find a cost effective way to desalinate sea water. (By "cost effective" I mean competitive with the watershed in temperate climates. Also, disposal of waste brine would have to be figured in.) Look at how much land would become arable if we had this. They say that water will be more precious than oil in the next century.
I think because it would hinder more than do good. He'd have to play by the presidential rules and fight politicians vs. using his billions to make a real difference.
You have to mine thorium while waste uranuim is with us now and avaliable, plus development of thorium reactors, though long-term is a great idea, short term its a money pit that no body really wants to put their money in.
"Bill, we have a hugh energy problem! The work for energy compression or contraction. Electrical potential comes from light+waves from surrounding masses (Faradays Law) compressing the wave+amplitude the shorter the oscillating wave-lengths the greater the mass or energy! From surrounding masses compressing gas and oil to atoms from active cores of galaxies because Mach's Principle "All inertial ref-frames determind by the composite matter of the universe is the Basis of Einsteins relativity."
Look at organic produce. If its not in demand then its not a commodity obviously... And the land that is required for natural resources is far less then the land that is required by the industrial agricultural ind. Nuclear is safe and efficient but what does our future generations do with the waste (i.e. 1000 years later, if we haven't killed our environment past living conditions by then.) It is not practical to your comforts but that is all based off the "social norms" which you follow
your not doing your research on solar and storage cells as well as wind power and hydro power. The whole earth is solar powered, if you use the same amount of space to put solar panels rather than a nuclear plant but would power a fairly large city.
Haven't watched the whole thing, but didn't he call solar a "toy"? This man doesn't know about the power of distributed--exactly like he didn't know about the power of the internet before it hit him in the face. It's the same blindspot! We have twice as much covered, impervious infrastructure (roofs and parking lots) as we need to power the entire planet with solar, with normal panels. With simple distributed build out, solar wins. Gas continues but declines with energy storage ascent.
Smart guy but CO2 is good for plants just as oxygen is good for humans. Human only contribute 2.4% of all carbon so what are we to do about all the other contributing factors? BTW, it has been eight years since this video was made, note; all the forecast by the climate alarmist have been completely wrong.
in my thoughts nuclear energy has one flaw where will you get the uranium 235 once it runs out , uranium 235 by itself is already toxic to bio material. so my idea wich is safer and less expensive is too harness the power of the atmosphere by taking the power from lighting and recycle it in a reactor using atoms to keep the energy in a flux in my theory. okay now your A's and Q's Question 1: How would you get the lighting into a proper containment Answer 1 ; All lighting is attracted to
Gates' argument of intermitency as an invalidator for renewables ignores storage. Clearly storage has improved in terms of Lithium ion or other batteries, and will continue to do so rapidly. The hospital example is particularly irksome.
earthwalker7 Even if batteries were improving at the same kind of rate microchips have, it would take another 55 year for battery tech to get to where we need it to be.
earthwalker7 This was two years ago and you are talking about a hypothetical future which doesn't yet exist. So clearly intermittancy is still a problem.
Sir, Mr. Bill Gates I have received hundreds of thousands of messages from bill gates Tell me who is the real. One is demanding 150$ other demanding 725$ And 2000$. I am really confused And in confusion what to do next.
Extremely successful and intelligent man who has a good grip on the impossibility of "farmed energy" versus "intense energy production" that is needed. I can not see the propagation of his vision for nuclear energy (plutonium "bomb" producing reactors) into the 3rd world (Somalia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, North Korea as just a few, all need electricity) as being successful. Has he even heard any arguments for a Thorium reactor that produces no bomb material, and in actual fact destroys those materials? Come on Bill, let someone spend 5 minutes with you to explain the process where your vast wealth would be better used!
In the _decades_ of of using "bomb" producing reactors, as you rudely mocked them, has there been even one instance of using the plutonium to make a bomb? No. I agree that thorium reactors are better than old-fashioned reactors, but Gates here was referring to 3rd generation breeder reactors, which are FAR better and far safer than the reactors that caused upset. As Gates rightly stated in the video, many more people die from coal and wind than from nuclear, per energy unit produced; yet the public still has a phobia around nuclear energy.
Totally agree !! How does Bill G not understand the amazing potential of thorium molten salt reactors ?? He knows about them, how would he not take a day to immerse himself in the research? Drip info to Bill (and other influential people) on Twitter ;)
He must have been reading your comment because he has started investing in MSR's as well. Also to be clear thorium is just one type of fuel for a molten salt reactor, the reactor design is the important part, not necessarily the fuel.
THANK YOU for making this statement. I agree totally. I also want to thank you for allowing me to not have to watch bill gates blather on about something he doesn't know enough about but we listen because he was on the computer wave at the right time. He's just as smart as most of us.
The Energy Future and the last hope to this our future is only to substitute the combustion reaction from all the pollutant fuels (non elimination but simply not pollution production, CO2, NO, radioactive waste etc) with the Electrant Genetics Explodimetrics Study, by the using the direct Joule-work, without the water steam to electrical generators: EEGa, Explosives Energy Gate. This is the Human Energy Independence: no methane, no carbon, no petroleum, no generic fuels. Paolo Canevese, Milano
In most cases, the land used by a nuclear power plant (including the exculsion zone and mining of uranium) if completely covered in solar panels would actually produce more energy than the power plant itself. I am not saying nuclear is not an option but the it is clear that solar is the way of the future. There is just so much sunlight bombarding the Earth it just makes sense to use it.
Baseload vs variable. Solar without storage doesn’t solve the Base load problem. Also with 70% of the world going to mega cities by 2070 this challenge gets worse
2028 is too far away Far too far away. We don't have one and half decades to wait. We need action right now. Nuclear, wind, solar, whatever. Just make it clean, and make it right now.
In the spring of 2012 there was about 100 GW installed solar, now it is over 300 GW, so triple in 5 years. Installed wind power in the past 5 years have gone from about 250 GW to 500 GW, so double. CO2 emissions world wide seems to not have grown for the past 3 years. Changes can come faster than we think, I'm cautiously optimistic.
"...I'm cautiously optimistic." Me too. If the biggest wind farm in China gets its planned expansion then it will be the biggest "powerplant" in the world at 20 GW of capacity. These are impressive things. And I think that once we achieve peak fossil fuel demand then many more people will become aware and motivated by it and new goals will be laid out.
I like this but he says 'the entire history of the planet'. Problem is we DON'T KNOW what the 'entire history' of the planet is. We just have emotional people and need more rational team players.
He is incredibly clever. When you consider that this isn't even his main area of interest and he is involved in so many other projects - his depth of knowledge is incredibly impressive.
He flys around in a private jet he is a hypocrite and needs jail time for the things he does nothing will ever convince me he is doing any good he is just evil
If he`s so interested why does he not invest in the whole pile of entrepreneurs out there today in HHO and hydrogen? Answer, he`s part of the cabal of oligarchs involved in eugenics. He has no intention of helping at all.
Colin Hammill Is it some different sectors that are low cost energy too and that poor country could develop? I am not sure he is investing in nuclear because of such hidden reasons, but certainly because of what he is explaining in the video. That's more plausible, don't you think? :)
Isaac Von Gürtberg I suppose I just don`t like him but no, there is a technology coming soon that I`m glad he never heard about or he would have bought it out and shut it down but he can`t now. It shouldn`t be far around the corner until you can heat you house with HHO cheaper than any other means. I know it`s not rubbish as I`m working on it. :)
Colin Hammill Bill Gates, from what he said in some other videos, when he talks about miracles that are needed for the furure of energy, would be the first to support interesting innovation in energy sectors. But if I can ask, what is the thing you said more precisely about? Heating a house with water? :)
Please understand that people change and if Apple was evil before, it may not be today. So we need to accept and appreciate his efforts or look into mirror if we are doing it and doing it enough.
This was 8 years ago. If we all just starting constructing nuclear plants back then, by now most of that first wave of plants would have been finished, and most countries would now be generating mostly co2 free, cheap power like France is.
It's 10 years ago at this point.
Here in the Philippines, I've been saying more than a decade back that my country must start investing in nuclear energy. Up to now, I'm still saying it!
The sad truth is that we already had a GENERATION IV reactor design prototyped at ORNL back in the 1960's and it successfully ran for about 7 years. Too bad Bill doesn't invest in the LFTR, because it avoids the transuranic waste and proliferation issues associated with Uranium/Plutonium Fast Breeders, avoids solid fuel designs (expensive, in efficient), and uses a base fuel (Th-232) which is much more available and can be applied in a low cost, passively safe, lower pressure (near atm) design.
people might be ranting about how bill gates don't know about lithium batteries , but it is not economic to build batteries. lithium batteries have very limited life and building hydrogen plants is extremely difficult. He did his research and invested billions. Educate yourself people.
How about Thorium and LFTR ?
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No need. Uranium is just fine.
@@hrthrhs Uranium 235 is in very limited supply and it's expensive, creates a lot of pollution to extract. process and enrich. Thorium, on the other hand, is just a waste product of existing rare earth extraction processes and it's 100% Th232 - no need for enrichment
@@hrthrhs it is running 'spent' fuel.. the molten salt instead of solid fuel is the gen-v part
Society’s rejection of Nuclear power was a massive mistake, and the environment has payed dearly for it as we continue to rely on fossil fuels for our electricity
Having worked in nuclear industry, in R&D, I have a different opinion. There were problems with the plant designs which small modifications could not address. My opinion is, the US politics and industry momentum, following TMI and even today, would/will not allow the development of new/Gen 4 reactors - reactors that are walk-away safe, address waste storage, and other benefits was/is not happening in the US. Also, even if we had the design it is unlikely it could profitably be licensed and built in the US. For example, the CEO of chevron recently said that it is unlikely we will ever build another oil refinery in the US. Again, my opinion, but I believe that there some possible real benefits to our current condition. It doesn't look like the US will, but other nations are working much harder to design Gen 4 reactors - the US is doing better, but there's still great resistance. The fact that this was years ago but limited progress is significant. I'm hopeful for Gates in Wyoming, but... I'm hopeful we'll see some 'real change'. There are a lot of people working to make it happen.
his thoughts are so clear
wood chips.... killing the forest for energy YAY that's the green revolution we all want...
Mr. Eugenics. He's on a mission. For himself - Turn down the sound and watch his body language..
there are more of us than we realize, thank you.
this guy has an answer for everything, energy, vaccines, technology(5g) tesla had put together the use of free energy and we/re following these muppets dc
Ikr.... they're hanging on to every word like he is god... not. This guy bill gates has a nefarious agenda.
A lot of what he says is laughable, literally funny.
i fear the guy doing the interview has no clue, minimum background or basic knowledge about energy. gee!
anybody can tell me the name of the book that he mentioned
do yoy know right now what book it was ? i am looking for the title too jaja
Btw I don't know much about the subject but wikipedia says that after the Fukushima nuclear accident, Germany and Italy will close all their nuclear reactors. The problem with solar from what I know is capturing the energy, storing it and also using it efficiently but there's actually a tremendous amount of it so it's not that solar is not good but we suck on using it. Also there is a list on wiki again on nuclear and it's pretty big...it's not an aircraft accident or something small is nuclear
alguien sabe como se llama el título del libro que mencionó sobre autos y casas?
What stops hydro storage in Japan?
So solar, wind and wave energy are not good ways of sustainable energy?
There hasn't been increased temperatures since 1997.
When Bill Gates have something to say: you sit down and listen =)
everything Gates says about vaccines are LIES!
The comments from the audience were irrelevent and uniteresting.
Ross Rain is a simpleton
A lot has changed since 2012!
It seems to me with the prices for electricity in places like california (0.35 to 0.51 per kwh) for the top residential rates then the payback period for $2/watt solar panels you can buy from amazon is under 6000 hours of use. if you figure 200 x 10 hour days per year, that would be 3 years payback. if if you say you only get half of rated output, that is 6 years. also Solar thermal is very inexpensive for the heat energy produced. It does not seem impractical to me
how long did it take for your solar panels to pay back?
LFTR Reactors are actually quite small. They don't have those great big cooling towers that Uranium Fast Breed Reactors have to steam cool the chamber.
We don't have the technology to have powerful and efficient Solar Panels, but there is study into Nantenna and i do support the research into it.
But LFTR technology exits now, is far more efficient than current Solar Power Technology and has been dismissed for far too long.
I think that solar energy, wind energy and tide energy should all be used as a supplement. But not as the main source of our energy.
gates is hardly green his house is as big as a battleship and he backs and funds monsanto one of the worst polluters (glysophphate) on the planet. what we need is a depression something i advocated in the milwaukee journal in 74.
Questions from the audience give great insight into why the world is so messed up.
why do you push dangerous vaccines bill that sterilize blacks ???? when giving clean water will be much cheaper and save many many more ??? ,or is it not about saving lives ?
Bill Gates like so many others, has not done his homework. I encourage him and others to check out these two companies. Bioroot Energy LLC and Standard Alcohol Company of America. If we want cheap abundant energy all we have to do is invest in proven EPA approved technology... alcohol instead of oil.
Lol.. why do you need to reduce carbon? Carbon is plant fuel..
because big corporations and big time ceo´s are more powerful than the president already.
Has anyone managed to make thorium reactors economically viable? If this is so safe and easy, why hasn't anyone done it yet?
What does one do with nuclear waste that is deadly for longer than mankind has recorded history...????
He talks very knowledgeably about energy for someone who started out in computing
The Tera-Watt Generator should install the Cabling under the Ground for safer distribution,.
Maybe easy code loop estimate # of evergreen pine needles time configuration. Useful BTU return s.
Why can't the plants just be put in some deserted place?
What a brilliant man. One of the greatest living minds.
Most likely a hypocrite who knows that there are phenomena which violate the law of energy conservation, some of them PRACTICALLY USEFUL.
My email: htg@iteria.pl
Lol to above.
One of my favourite living human bean.
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your so right one good deed does not make up for a lifetime of wrongs
Jesus Christ that first question could not have gone on longer and been more confusing.
do we have the technology to do it currently? and how much would the "lightning power plant" cost
electrolyses when producing power thus storing oxygen and hydrogen and fuelcells when you need it, way better than batteries
The problem is every day, whether in this decade not achieved
To curb global warming, the XXII century will
unbreathable.
This guy is fucking smart. damn!!
No.... he is an idiot (and one who got very lucky with his daddy's help). And so are you and idiot for thinking he is smart.
It's one for disagreeing with me & giving me your opinion or critixizing mines. But there is no need to call me an idiot. Just like anyone else the foundation off my knowledge starts somewhere.
John Nastrom I am the daddy,of 7 sons...
TheChristianRight09 And your point is?
Bill is honest about how difficult it is for new forms of energy that is cheap and environment friendly.
50 or 75 years is a good estimate for the future.
+Naimul Haq Not when it's has already been developed and ready to be designed into a working application from a portable system, to powering a refit power plant. The difficult part is trying to tell people and getting people like Bill Gates to hear about it. When did Fukushima melt down? I designed a new power system back the to re-power that island nation. I tried the .W.H., Oprah, Al Gore, and so on to interview the project, zip. Mr. Bill Gates many times. zip. They are all set on the course they want and being rich, all of them, look at to future bottom line on their investments, all part of their entertainment. To show a possible risk to investment, is not going to go over well. Hence no reply's. Crazy inventor, me? In case your wondering, no, passionate - driven to get true green abundant energy out in the world today. God Bless, Kevin Kinney
Kevin Kinney
The truth cannot be hidden, it will come out. Is it possible to outline your invention of 'abundant energy'?
Naimul Haq It's not only possible, but it is easy to do. I could do it, to be so crystal clear, a person who knows a screw driver is a Drink, would get it, so you bet, I could. Thanks for asking.
Gates is wrong about the 10,000 year life of carbon thing. Atmospheric atomic tests have shown that the lifetime of excess atmospheric carbon is about 20 years.
One of the most profoundly beneficial things wealthy philanthropists could do for humanity would be to create a billion dollar prize for anyone who can find a cost effective way to desalinate sea water. (By "cost effective" I mean competitive with the watershed in temperate climates. Also, disposal of waste brine would have to be figured in.) Look at how much land would become arable if we had this. They say that water will be more precious than oil in the next century.
I think because it would hinder more than do good. He'd have to play by the presidential rules and fight politicians vs. using his billions to make a real difference.
The interviewer should learn to listen
is he talking about thorium riacter
no
You have to mine thorium while waste uranuim is with us now and avaliable, plus development of thorium reactors, though long-term is a great idea, short term its a money pit that no body really wants to put their money in.
"Bill, we have a hugh energy problem!
The work for energy compression or contraction. Electrical potential comes from light+waves from surrounding masses (Faradays Law) compressing the wave+amplitude the shorter the oscillating wave-lengths the greater the mass or energy!
From surrounding masses compressing gas and oil to atoms from active cores of galaxies because Mach's Principle "All inertial ref-frames determind by the composite matter of the universe is the Basis of Einsteins relativity."
Bill gates is a great humanistic person-we need more national leaders like him
cause presidents can't get anything done with the amount of disagreements that occur in the house
Carbon capture is a total waste of time.
One day there will be Wireless electricity. When this happens there will be no more electricity bills.
'will' at end of 46th minute: doesn't come through competition, Bill, it comes about because of crisis.
Look at organic produce. If its not in demand then its not a commodity obviously... And the land that is required for natural resources is far less then the land that is required by the industrial agricultural ind. Nuclear is safe and efficient but what does our future generations do with the waste (i.e. 1000 years later, if we haven't killed our environment past living conditions by then.)
It is not practical to your comforts but that is all based off the "social norms" which you follow
Similar to private Doodle briefcase.
your not doing your research on solar and storage cells as well as wind power and hydro power. The whole earth is solar powered, if you use the same amount of space to put solar panels rather than a nuclear plant but would power a fairly large city.
50% NEVER.
Haven't watched the whole thing, but didn't he call solar a "toy"? This man doesn't know about the power of distributed--exactly like he didn't know about the power of the internet before it hit him in the face. It's the same blindspot! We have twice as much covered, impervious infrastructure (roofs and parking lots) as we need to power the entire planet with solar, with normal panels. With simple distributed build out, solar wins. Gas continues but declines with energy storage ascent.
If you google 'thorium reactors' you can see the latest developments
- it looks like there is growing momentum for Thorium around the world!
Cheaper once its avaliable to build - but not cheaper to develop, but still we need another billionair to take care of the thorium design.
Didn't Nikolas Tesla harness electricity from the atmosphere? Why not replicate that technology? Too cheap?
Smart guy but CO2 is good for plants just as oxygen is good for humans. Human only contribute 2.4% of all carbon so what are we to do about all the other contributing factors? BTW, it has been eight years since this video was made, note; all the forecast by the climate alarmist have been completely wrong.
wow the questions at the end are absolutely awful.
What makes you say that?
Sierra Energy! Their concept is FABULOUS!!!!!!!!!
in my thoughts nuclear energy has one flaw where will you get the uranium 235 once it runs out , uranium 235 by itself is already toxic to bio material. so my idea wich is safer and less expensive is too harness the power of the atmosphere by taking the power from lighting and recycle it in a reactor using atoms to keep the energy in a flux in my theory. okay now your A's and Q's
Question 1: How would you get the lighting into a proper containment
Answer 1 ; All lighting is attracted to
We only got 10 years,not 75%
did anyone else catch the math reference at 5:40?
Thanks, there's a great opportunity.
Gates' argument of intermitency as an invalidator for renewables ignores storage. Clearly storage has improved in terms of Lithium ion or other batteries, and will continue to do so rapidly. The hospital example is particularly irksome.
earthwalker7 Even if batteries were improving at the same kind of rate microchips have, it would take another 55 year for battery tech to get to where we need it to be.
earthwalker7 This was two years ago and you are talking about a hypothetical future which doesn't yet exist. So clearly intermittancy is still a problem.
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Sir, Mr. Bill Gates
I have received hundreds of thousands of messages from bill gates
Tell me who is the real.
One is demanding 150$ other demanding 725$
And 2000$.
I am really confused
And in confusion what to do next.
Extremely successful and intelligent man who has a good grip on the impossibility of "farmed energy" versus "intense energy production" that is needed. I can not see the propagation of his vision for nuclear energy (plutonium "bomb" producing reactors) into the 3rd world (Somalia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, North Korea as just a few, all need electricity) as being successful. Has he even heard any arguments for a Thorium reactor that produces no bomb material, and in actual fact destroys those materials? Come on Bill, let someone spend 5 minutes with you to explain the process where your vast wealth would be better used!
In the _decades_ of of using "bomb" producing reactors, as you rudely mocked them, has there been even one instance of using the plutonium to make a bomb?
No.
I agree that thorium reactors are better than old-fashioned reactors,
but Gates here was referring to 3rd generation breeder reactors, which are FAR better and far safer than the reactors that caused upset.
As Gates rightly stated in the video, many more people die from coal and wind than from nuclear, per energy unit produced; yet the public still has a phobia around nuclear energy.
Totally agree !! How does Bill G not understand the amazing potential of thorium molten salt reactors ?? He knows about them, how would he not take a day to immerse himself in the research? Drip info to Bill (and other influential people) on Twitter ;)
He must have been reading your comment because he has started investing in MSR's as well. Also to be clear thorium is just one type of fuel for a molten salt reactor, the reactor design is the important part, not necessarily the fuel.
THANK YOU for making this statement. I agree totally. I also want to thank you for allowing me to not have to watch bill gates blather on about something he doesn't know enough about but we listen because he was on the computer wave at the right time. He's just as smart as most of us.
He is great as usual!
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In most cases, the land used by a nuclear power plant (including the exculsion zone and mining of uranium) if completely covered in solar panels would actually produce more energy than the power plant itself. I am not saying nuclear is not an option but the it is clear that solar is the way of the future. There is just so much sunlight bombarding the Earth it just makes sense to use it.
Baseload vs variable. Solar without storage doesn’t solve the Base load problem. Also with 70% of the world going to mega cities by 2070 this challenge gets worse
2028 is too far away Far too far away. We don't have one and half decades to wait. We need action right now. Nuclear, wind, solar, whatever. Just make it clean, and make it right now.
In the spring of 2012 there was about 100 GW installed solar, now it is over 300 GW, so triple in 5 years. Installed wind power in the past 5 years have gone from about 250 GW to 500 GW, so double. CO2 emissions world wide seems to not have grown for the past 3 years. Changes can come faster than we think, I'm cautiously optimistic.
"...I'm cautiously optimistic." Me too. If the biggest wind farm in China gets its planned expansion then it will be the biggest "powerplant" in the world at 20 GW of capacity. These are impressive things. And I think that once we achieve peak fossil fuel demand then many more people will become aware and motivated by it and new goals will be laid out.
I like this but he says 'the entire history of the planet'. Problem is we DON'T KNOW what the 'entire history' of the planet is. We just have emotional people and need more rational team players.
Indeed, Pebble Bed Modular reactors are extremely safe and self regulating. It's mass hysteria and public perception that is the huge issue.
When the governments start holding up their end of the deals and dealing with the waste, perception would improve.
this video is clearly above your level of comprehension
"his ability to breed woodchucks...."
lmao
Get what Bill Gates is telling you: YOU HAVE TO BE WILLING TO PAY FOR IT.
He has far more power and control over his own actions this way
Why doesn't he run for president? VOTE FOR BILL GATES 2016?
How on earth did Bill actually understand half them questions?!?!
He is incredibly clever. When you consider that this isn't even his main area of interest and he is involved in so many other projects - his depth of knowledge is incredibly impressive.
He has alot of knowledge. He said in an interview that he reads a few books a months and always takes notes of what he's reading.
Read about it
We should rename high pressure nuclear contained nuclear.
He flys around in a private jet he is a hypocrite and needs jail time for the things he does nothing will ever convince me he is doing any good he is just evil
If he`s so interested why does he not invest in the whole pile of entrepreneurs out there today in HHO and hydrogen? Answer, he`s part of the cabal of oligarchs involved in eugenics. He has no intention of helping at all.
Because HHO and hydrogen are storage means, not energy sources.
That's as simple as that.
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Isaac Von Gürtberg In the not too distant future you may find out different my friend. :)
Colin Hammill Is it some different sectors that are low cost energy too and that poor country could develop?
I am not sure he is investing in nuclear because of such hidden reasons, but certainly because of what he is explaining in the video. That's more plausible, don't you think? :)
Isaac Von Gürtberg I suppose I just don`t like him but no, there is a technology coming soon that I`m glad he never heard about or he would have bought it out and shut it down but he can`t now. It shouldn`t be far around the corner until you can heat you house with HHO cheaper than any other means. I know it`s not rubbish as I`m working on it. :)
Colin Hammill Bill Gates, from what he said in some other videos, when he talks about miracles that are needed for the furure of energy, would be the first to support interesting innovation in energy sectors.
But if I can ask, what is the thing you said more precisely about? Heating a house with water? :)
Please understand that people change and if Apple was evil before, it may not be today. So we need to accept and appreciate his efforts or look into mirror if we are doing it and doing it enough.
has he not heard of artificial photosynthesis.dan nocera? et all?
Hes adamant , as he was when he proposed that no one will ever need more than 10kb memory.
What about Thorium, Bill?
it was nice show to watch and i think there is a lots of true
Call me Mr. Gates and I'll school you on how to store the energy produced by solar and wind.
I am Dutch, and our country is going further with wind-mills and also solar, somehow it makes our country more self-sufficiend, kind regards.
We also have nuclear-energy, but don´t ask me how some people react on that one.
wish it were that easy great we have Bill and James Hanson for a reality check