Comments on: Bill Gates Never Ran an Energy Company

By: Ronald Brak

Ronald Brak — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 22:41:00 +0000

Now that’s unfair. She rolled a a pair of dice before deciding to have her third child and it came up snake eyes and so she had the .2 part of 2.2 children.

And more seriously, she’s into allowing woman to control their own fertility rather than just straight reduction of birth rates.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:29:00 +0000

lol. good point.

By: Exat

Exat — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:24:00 +0000

Gates is an anachronism. Also the fact that his wife preaches birth and population control with three children, tells a lot.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:05:00 +0000

He was good at monopolizing a market. And seems he’d like to use those skills to fight off competition to his nuclear pet projects. Don’t think it will work out for him this time..

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:03:00 +0000

Totally agree.

Get really irritated by his approach to this topic.

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:06:00 +0000

Please don’t bring up this ‘look and feel’ crap from the 80’s again…

By: mk1313

mk1313 — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:50:00 +0000

He only saw the potential after it was significantly developed by Netscape and predecessors. Only after it was showing promise did he use his monopoly on operating systems to crush the opposition. As for it being a revolutionary OS almost all aspects of it have been stolen from the real innovators and badly copied.

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:49:00 +0000

Yep. He only saw the potential in the internet a few months before it started taking off. Others predicted it years in advance.

He’s still a legendary philanthropist and Windows will forever stay in the history books as the first revolutionary OS that brought computers to the masses.

By: anderlan

anderlan — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:12:00 +0000

Bill Gates has nearly been run over by giant tractor-trailer size trends he didn’t see coming before. More than once. Great wealth, and now great philanthropy, doesn’t prove that someone is the smartest guy in the room, no matter how much Gates imagines it does.

By: ThomasGerke

ThomasGerke — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:02:00 +0000

Excellent article.
I am very annoyed with Bill Gates lack of understanding the benefits of distributed energy generation… espiecially because he basicly made his fortune with that concept AND because he is now working in charity around the world.

The underlying problem is very common. People do not actually inform themselves about the ways renewable energy systems work, yet they feel super confident to judge them.

At a time, when Germany is basicly moving toward a 100% solar economy (including solar in the form of wind, biomass,… of course ) I do find it frustrating to see smart people like Bill Gates jumps around the world and proclaim that the answer to our energy problems is decades away… and it’s a nuclear reactor… or some other stuff.

There are comprehensive studies on the feasability of 100% renewable within 20-30 years…just use your imagination Bill.