Bill Gates Talks About the Future of Energy

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12 жыл бұрын

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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@hrthrhs 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@yengsabio5315 Жыл бұрын

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!

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@ethanmartin7904 Жыл бұрын

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@sebastianrichardson5631 Жыл бұрын

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@laurenpelletier5379 Жыл бұрын

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@liambrown2909 Жыл бұрын

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@carlosrobertovega8200 Жыл бұрын

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@jb678901 10 жыл бұрын

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.

@ravindertalwar553 2 жыл бұрын

Yery useful information and discussion in this event.

@Jim54_ 2 жыл бұрын

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

@keithfullmer1058 Жыл бұрын

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.

@dragon90815 8 жыл бұрын

The Tera-Watt Generator should install the Cabling under the Ground for safer distribution,.

@joshuatree9037 10 жыл бұрын

there are more of us than we realize, thank you.

@cerverg 10 жыл бұрын

How about Thorium and LFTR ?

@samuelforsyth6374 4 жыл бұрын

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@samuelforsyth6374 4 жыл бұрын

closest thing to market in us..

@hrthrhs 4 жыл бұрын

No need. Uranium is just fine.

@cerverg 4 жыл бұрын

@@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

@samuelforsyth6374 4 жыл бұрын

@@hrthrhs it is running 'spent' fuel.. the molten salt instead of solid fuel is the gen-v part

@richard-social8125 2 жыл бұрын

his thoughts are so clear

@sergioleoz5998 3 жыл бұрын

alguien sabe como se llama el título del libro que mencionó sobre autos y casas?

@douglasforeman8627 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe easy code loop estimate # of evergreen pine needles time configuration. Useful BTU return s.

@vamseekotha 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@Meatchop 5 жыл бұрын

What stops hydro storage in Japan?

@CamburCom 5 жыл бұрын

A lot has changed since 2012!

@Juventinos 4 жыл бұрын

wood chips.... killing the forest for energy YAY that's the green revolution we all want...

@LaidBackTechTalk 11 жыл бұрын

your so right one good deed does not make up for a lifetime of wrongs

@jlnewsonjr 8 жыл бұрын

anybody can tell me the name of the book that he mentioned

@sergioleoz5998 3 жыл бұрын

do yoy know right now what book it was ? i am looking for the title too jaja

@kimteangchou87 6 жыл бұрын

Best team is the team that understand about best market that get alongside of power and respond.

@dickhamilton3517 8 жыл бұрын

'will' at end of 46th minute: doesn't come through competition, Bill, it comes about because of crisis.

@yoice2k 11 жыл бұрын

3:52 teehee he said hard and long.

@SHINNBUCKED 5 жыл бұрын

Questions from the audience give great insight into why the world is so messed up.

@ve9jonny 9 жыл бұрын

He talks very knowledgeably about energy for someone who started out in computing

@keithfullmer1058 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, there's a great opportunity.

@douglasforeman8627 2 жыл бұрын

Similar to private Doodle briefcase.

@tsaigillian8838 9 жыл бұрын

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 ...

@ThanosSofroniou 11 жыл бұрын

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

@Bosshogg386 11 жыл бұрын

There hasn't been increased temperatures since 1997.

@TheSpartanburger 10 жыл бұрын

Jesus Christ that first question could not have gone on longer and been more confusing.

@world123cc3 5 жыл бұрын

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@Nexfero 11 жыл бұрын

did anyone else catch the math reference at 5:40?

@jean-claudeb3235 Жыл бұрын

Mr. Eugenics. He's on a mission. For himself - Turn down the sound and watch his body language..

@dekubaner 10 жыл бұрын

i fear the guy doing the interview has no clue, minimum background or basic knowledge about energy. gee!

@user-mg5hu7qm2k Жыл бұрын

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@paulwarren796 4 жыл бұрын

IS THERE ROOM FOR THE CALIBUR OF FRIENDSHIP ?

@Rayquesto 7 жыл бұрын

"In terms of the first derivative... time rate of change" haha

@SeijuroRen 5 жыл бұрын

We should rename high pressure nuclear contained nuclear.

@alessandragomes7499 3 жыл бұрын

Qui ótimo.

@naimulhaq9626 9 жыл бұрын

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.

@kevinkinney737 8 жыл бұрын

+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

@naimulhaq9626 8 жыл бұрын

Kevin Kinney The truth cannot be hidden, it will come out. Is it possible to outline your invention of 'abundant energy'?

@kevinkinney737 8 жыл бұрын

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.

@antred11 10 жыл бұрын

Has anyone managed to make thorium reactors economically viable? If this is so safe and easy, why hasn't anyone done it yet?

@starsnstrife 10 жыл бұрын

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.

@CalebMcFarland 5 жыл бұрын

Hey, not too far from that 2022 timeline.

@samurai1999 10 жыл бұрын

If you google 'thorium reactors' you can see the latest developments - it looks like there is growing momentum for Thorium around the world!

@bretonkyle 11 жыл бұрын

"his ability to breed woodchucks...." lmao

@ThanosSofroniou 11 жыл бұрын

So solar, wind and wave energy are not good ways of sustainable energy?

@Bloated_Tony_Danza 9 жыл бұрын

The comments from the audience were irrelevent and uniteresting.

@Bloated_Tony_Danza 4 жыл бұрын

Ross Rain is a simpleton

@bhadreshthummar1367 4 жыл бұрын

The interviewer should learn to listen

@ulizez89 12 жыл бұрын

When Bill Gates have something to say: you sit down and listen =)

@GeoLawson 2 жыл бұрын

everything Gates says about vaccines are LIES!

@zinaj9437 6 жыл бұрын

Sierra Energy! Their concept is FABULOUS!!!!!!!!!

@bobo888bobo 10 жыл бұрын

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

@darwinjina 3 жыл бұрын

how long did it take for your solar panels to pay back?

@chris24hdez 5 жыл бұрын

20:09 🤣

@douglasforeman8627 2 жыл бұрын

Miracle. Nice quoter. Just got my work done could be millions of dear. Miracle machine bank.

@RurickTheGreat 10 жыл бұрын

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.

@jc2k1 11 жыл бұрын

What makes you say that?

@Bosshogg386 11 жыл бұрын

Read about it

@1692shannon 11 жыл бұрын

how much energy is spent on the millions of x box machines every day?

@erikm9768 9 жыл бұрын

Hes adamant , as he was when he proposed that no one will ever need more than 10kb memory.

@rachelwren-vipond6029 7 жыл бұрын

has he not heard of artificial photosynthesis.dan nocera? et all?

@tempersne 5 жыл бұрын

Lol.. why do you need to reduce carbon? Carbon is plant fuel..

@nonchalantd 11 жыл бұрын

Why can't the plants just be put in some deserted place?

@HafizBahar 10 жыл бұрын

do we have the technology to do it currently? and how much would the "lightning power plant" cost

@myztic123 10 жыл бұрын

wow the questions at the end are absolutely awful.

@tompalmer5986 10 жыл бұрын

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.

@JeremyFisher78 11 жыл бұрын

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.

@paulg4621 12 жыл бұрын

good idea。

@physicsimpossible73 10 жыл бұрын

How on earth did Bill actually understand half them questions?!?!

@ganymede242 10 жыл бұрын

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.

@jawelNeezeker 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@TomCoook 11 жыл бұрын

it was nice show to watch and i think there is a lots of true

@user-mg5hu7qm2k Жыл бұрын

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@douglasforeman8627 2 жыл бұрын

Good luck Landshark Boss. shares.?

@zapfanzapfan 7 жыл бұрын

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.

@Apjooz 6 жыл бұрын

"...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.

@user-ii2wm7lg8b 2 ай бұрын

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@etbadaboum 12 жыл бұрын

Forget Amory Lovins and other fairy tall tellers, read Vaclav Smil!

@MrKorrazonCold 11 жыл бұрын

"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."

@juancarlossande1360 3 жыл бұрын

Quiero hablar con usted de economía xD

@josephsigelman6599 8 жыл бұрын

He is great as usual!

@geetapathak2346 8 жыл бұрын

rafimohmand

@douglasforeman8627 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@oshanerichardson 10 жыл бұрын

This guy is fucking smart. damn!!

@johnnastrom9400 10 жыл бұрын

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.

@oshanerichardson 10 жыл бұрын

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.

@TheChristianRight09 10 жыл бұрын

John Nastrom I am the daddy,of 7 sons...

@johnnastrom9400 10 жыл бұрын

TheChristianRight09 And your point is?

@samurai1999 11 жыл бұрын

What about Thorium, Bill?

@daydreamer5580 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@aldosalthren 11 жыл бұрын

this video is clearly above your level of comprehension

@joshuatree9037 10 жыл бұрын

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.

@mrme8795 7 жыл бұрын

is he talking about thorium riacter

@verticalFarm0 7 жыл бұрын

@paulmurphy8549 4 жыл бұрын

We only got 10 years,not 75%

@Nagarajukuruva 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@stephencurry5728 10 жыл бұрын

The output may be at Tesla cars.Nobody wants to live in a world similar to the Planet Venus. Very good reply Friend.

@juhyokang2571 2 жыл бұрын

Okay ok

@jacknisen 4 жыл бұрын

Carbon capture is a total waste of time.

@ulizez89 12 жыл бұрын

A classic Bill Gates april fools day, everyone knows that he send you a sms when he wants to speak to you :P

@Nahid1347 2 жыл бұрын

🙂

@alisonmez6713 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome amazing beautiful people amazing beautiful places ❤

@stephencurry5728 10 жыл бұрын

The problem is every day, whether in this decade not achieved To curb global warming, the XXII century will unbreathable.

@ThrallsBoys 11 жыл бұрын

He's to honest

@douglasforeman8627 2 жыл бұрын

Check out France solar teach Mansion. 147,000,000 ???

@parkourisfun90 8 жыл бұрын

Bill Gates should promote the food to state within each state model for president

@navylaks2 10 жыл бұрын

electrolyses when producing power thus storing oxygen and hydrogen and fuelcells when you need it, way better than batteries

@RurickTheGreat 10 жыл бұрын

Cheaper once its avaliable to build - but not cheaper to develop, but still we need another billionair to take care of the thorium design.

@natxosailor 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@arthurzettel6618 2 жыл бұрын

One day there will be Wireless electricity. When this happens there will be no more electricity bills.

@jacknisen 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@user-dn5mc5rc6k 4 жыл бұрын

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@zytigon 11 жыл бұрын

See KZfaq videos by Avego Real-time Ride sharing , sounds like a good option to try. It uses a logistics app on iphone to match people looking for a lift to people willing to give one. Keep cars full and get much better efficiency from fuel use, reduce air pollution & congestion & speed up journey time, earn money by giving a lift.