AKA it won't bring about the next industrial revolution. It will maybe secure a world where the Earth is 0.01 C cooler vis-a-vis fossil fuels.
Nuclear is exciting because humans can play God, that's where innovation lies, containing the power of the cosmos in a human friendly manner. With all due respect people who love renewables are un-imaginative and they resigned themselves to technological stasis in exchange for a reduction in CO2 emissions. That's a very underwhelming proposition, because in short, it means that there is nothing for us, but only benefits for maybe those who'd be alive in 200 years. That's unacceptable and un-American.
This initiative is to be encouraged and Mr. Gates has a history of being the person who had the privilege of signing off huge quality of life improvements for Americans . Which is mostly luck among those who had the right vision, in Windows case the GUI. But still it's something, I believe that other GUI pioneers would be financing the same projects had they been the ones ending up with a 200bn net worth.
AKA it won't bring about the next industrial revolution. It will maybe secure a world where the Earth is 0.01 C cooler vis-a-vis fossil fuels.
Nuclear is exciting because humans can play God, that's where innovation lies, containing the power of the cosmos in a human friendly manner. With all due respect people who love renewables are un-imaginative and they resigned themselves to technological stasis in exchange for a reduction in CO2 emissions. That's a very underwhelming proposition, because in short, it means that there is nothing for us, but only benefits for maybe those who'd be alive in 200 years. That's unacceptable and un-American.
This initiative is to be encouraged and Mr. Gates has a history of being the person who had the privilege of signing off huge quality of life improvements for Americans . Which is mostly luck among those who had the right vision, in Windows case the GUI. But still it's something, I believe that other GUI pioneers would be financing the same projects had they been the ones ending up with a 200bn net worth.