Bill Gates Talks About the Future of Energy
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- Опубліковано 24 бер 2012
- Bill Gates talks about the future of energy usage and his investments in alternatives to fossil fuels. He speaks with WSJ's Alan Murray at the 2012 ECO:nomics conference.
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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!
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.
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.
The Tera-Watt Generator should install the Cabling under the Ground for safer distribution,.
alguien sabe como se llama el título del libro que mencionó sobre autos y casas?
Maybe easy code loop estimate # of evergreen pine needles time configuration. Useful BTU return s.
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.
What stops hydro storage in Japan?
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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
Yery useful information and discussion in this event.
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
3:52 teehee he said hard and long.
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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.
windows is long time...some ppl think his product is cheap...so...i dont know bill more..but windows with notbook is nice for media...still use windows..hope he can still give new job ...
wood chips.... killing the forest for energy YAY that's the green revolution we all want...
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A lot has changed since 2012!
Questions from the audience give great insight into why the world is so messed up.
He talks very knowledgeably about energy for someone who started out in computing
'will' at end of 46th minute: doesn't come through competition, Bill, it comes about because of crisis.
your so right one good deed does not make up for a lifetime of wrongs
his thoughts are so clear
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?
If you google 'thorium reactors' you can see the latest developments
- it looks like there is growing momentum for Thorium around the world!
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
did anyone else catch the math reference at 5:40?
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.
We should rename high pressure nuclear contained nuclear.
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 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.
Similar to private Doodle briefcase.
What makes you say that?
So solar, wind and wave energy are not good ways of sustainable energy?
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.
"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."
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.
has he not heard of artificial photosynthesis.dan nocera? et all?
Read about it
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What is possible. Steady pace preface numbers. Original reinventing fire. Return on BTU s. The father here might imagine. Terrawatts. Connasuor not quite the word.
What happening others not so aware creation also participants.
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There hasn't been increased temperatures since 1997.
"In terms of the first derivative... time rate of change" haha
Has anyone managed to make thorium reactors economically viable? If this is so safe and easy, why hasn't anyone done it yet?
Miracle. Nice quoter. Just got my work done could be millions of dear. Miracle machine bank.
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.
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
Qui ótimo.
Mr. Eugenics. He's on a mission. For himself - Turn down the sound and watch his body language..
Thanks, there's a great opportunity.
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.
It is interesting that nuclear fusion is not being addressed as a medium-long term energy option... True, this technology is still being researched (mostly in Europe) and it could take decades before an efficient plant can be developed and replicated... if humanity can make it happen at all. However, if technology turns out successful, benefits would be so inmense that R&D funds are more than justified today, even accepting the risks.
Hey, not too far from that 2022 timeline.
Sierra Energy! Their concept is FABULOUS!!!!!!!!!
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.
Jesus Christ that first question could not have gone on longer and been more confusing.
"his ability to breed woodchucks...."
lmao
i fear the guy doing the interview has no clue, minimum background or basic knowledge about energy. gee!
how much energy is spent on the millions of x box machines every day?
The problem is every day, whether in this decade not achieved
To curb global warming, the XXII century will
unbreathable.
20:09 🤣
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.
do we have the technology to do it currently? and how much would the "lightning power plant" cost
The comments from the audience were irrelevent and uniteresting.
Ross Rain is a simpleton
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.
Hes adamant , as he was when he proposed that no one will ever need more than 10kb memory.
He is great as usual!
rafimohmand
Sir,
we are working towards a technology which can replace the conventional sources of energy in the future. can we get funded for this project.
Lol.. why do you need to reduce carbon? Carbon is plant fuel..
Zero Point energy coupled with graphite capacitors
Zero Point energy is fake techno jargon from movies. It doesn't exist at all in any sense. Just like light sabers aren't real, sorry to burst your bubble.
is he talking about thorium riacter
no
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.
When Bill Gates have something to say: you sit down and listen =)
everything Gates says about vaccines are LIES!
this video is clearly above your level of comprehension
No energy no development
One day there will be Wireless electricity. When this happens there will be no more electricity bills.
electrolyses when producing power thus storing oxygen and hydrogen and fuelcells when you need it, way better than batteries
Nuclear vs. conventional power is like airplanes vs. cars: a lot of effort is put in making the first category safe. However, when things go wrong, in the Nuclear/Airplane case, accidents are often REALLY bad.
Maybe advice too moderator of discussion. Do you have you work done existing have good and problematic. What are we talking about from existing.
Why can't the plants just be put in some deserted place?
Carbon capture is a total waste of time.
though It was long time ago, his prediction was come true. As a result we need reliable energy source and for carbon capture . That is Nuclear.
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.
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.
kokofan50 source?
50% NEVER.
metal.
Cheaper once its avaliable to build - but not cheaper to develop, but still we need another billionair to take care of the thorium design.
The interviewer should learn to listen
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
Good luck Landshark Boss. shares.?
Bill gates is a great humanistic person-we need more national leaders like him
wow the questions at the end are absolutely awful.
Invalid assumption that just because a natural gas peaker power plant's lifetime is 30 years that it will run for 30 years. If there's no fuel for it, it will not be running. The advantage of those plants however is that they can be run on bio-gas which *is* renewable. How can you tell if a hydrocarbon fuel is sustainable? Answer one question: Where does it get its hydrogen and carbon from? If they come from subterranean prehistoric deposits, they're finite and not sustainable. If they come directly or indirectly from water and air, they're sustainable as it's a closed loop. So if you ran out of fossil natural gas in five years but you'd ramped up bio-gas generation, we'd be okay and now renewable, regardless of the plant.
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.
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