I also write about why I’m optimistic about the world’s climate progress. Most of my climate and energy work is done throughBreakthrough Energy, although the Gates Foundation is helping people in low- and middle-income countries adapt to a warming world. I also continue to privately fund ...
Carbon capture and storage and nuclear:I often hear that lower cost solar and wind power along with the emerging breakthroughs in energy storage mean that these sources will be enough to get us to a carbon-free power grid. But because the world must balance the need to eliminate carbon emiss...
A lot of the climate change discussions surround clean energy, which increasingly includes nuclear power, said Gates, a longtime backer of nuclear energy. “In 2024 and beyond, I predict we will see lots of new innovations coming into the marketplace — even in very complicated areas like ...
In addition to mitigating climate change, affordable clean energy will help fight poverty. Although the Gates Foundation does not fund energy research (my investments are separate), we see through our work with the poorest how the high price of energy affects them by adding to the cost of tran...
Another Bill Gates Endeavor: Advanced Nuclear Reactors Separate from Breakthrough Energy, Gates also supports an effort to build the world’s most advanced nuclear plant. TerraPower, a company Gates founded in 2008, recently broke ground on its Natrium project in Wyoming and filed a construction pe...
Fortune worked with Bill Gates and his colleagues at Breakthrough Energy and Gates Ventures to put together this extensive package of stories on the signal crisis of our age. That crisis is not the COVID-19 pandemic—it’s climate change. Click the image above to read the rest of the stor...
Air conditioning is a climate disaster and Bill Gates is investing in this startup to fix it Air conditioning has the potential to keep people cool asclimate change keeps making the planet hotter. At the same time, conventional air conditioning technology uses a lot of energy, meaning it...
1、bill gates 2010年ted演讲稿im going to talk today about energy and climate.and that might seem a bit surprising becausemy full-time work at the foundation is mostly about vaccines and seeds,about the things that we need to invent and deliverto help the poorest two billion live better ...
This is where Gates comes in as an investor willing to take calculated risks to back transformative solutions. He shares his formula for investing: fund only those technologies that can take half a billion tons of GHG out of the atmosphere every year. He also has a tool to help prioritize ...
Bill Gates shares thoughts on the state of the world’s progress in the effort to reach net-zero carbon emissions and avoid a climate disaster.