The major causes of climate change and air pollution are the burning of fossil fuels for electrical generation and transportation. Bill Gates accepts that but thinks that technical solutions don’t exist already and need to be discovered. Thiel doesn’t even accept climate change, but still thinks we need to invest … [continued]
One of the wealthiest people in the world, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, recently conducted an interview with the author of the popular sci-fi novel “Seveneves”… inside a “Deep Blue” Tesla Model X in Seattle. The interview with Neal Stephenson — which was conducted for Bill Gates’ GatesNotes blog — probably serves as … [continued]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has fully divested itself from its $187 million stake in BP, one of the world’s seven supermajor oil and gas companies. The Guardian first reported the news by comparing filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission made by the Bill & Melinda Gates … [continued]
Legendary tech billionaire Bill Gates has been pitching the idea that nuclear energy is the only technology that can prevent global catastrophe.
Closing out this series of “link bombs,” here are other cleantech/green news items that don’t fit into the solar energy, wind energy, electric vehicle, and bicycling categories: Climate Change Related Leo DiCaprio Wins Oscar for Best Climate Activist! Leonardo DiCaprio’s Huge Carbon Footprint Leo DiCaprio Talks Climate Change Syria’s Drought Has Likely Been Its Worst … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. In the latest episode of our Cleantech Talk podcast (embedded below), Kyle Field, Matthew Klippenstein, and I talk about early Tesla Model S drive unit problems and the implications for future models and Tesla as a whole; Ford’s big $4.5 billion electric vehicle push, and … [continued]
At the “Energy for Tomorrow” conference in Paris, last week, one of the core discussions in the energy industry was: is a low-carbon world a challenge of deployment or one of innovation? In other words: do we already have the technologies we need (e.g. solar, wind, grid management) and now just need to … [continued]
Right back at you, Breakthrough Energy Coalition: a US thin film solar company pushes back against the notion that only nuclear energy can save the world.
Originally published on LinkedIn. Bill Gates and 30 other innovators have signed up to support the Breakthrough Energy Coalition to fill a very important gap in clean energy – early commercialization. The Federal Government has long played an important role in funding the basic research needed to come up with … [continued]
The COP21 Paris climate talks received some nuclear energy firepower in the form of Bill Gate’s new Breakthrough Energy Coalition.
