Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero!

http://www.ted.com At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he's backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.

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[AquariuStace]

@nlsavager It's not about me "not getting" your conspiracy theory. I'm not even saying that your theory is wrong, necessarily. I'm saying that Bill Gates would not make that kind of statement unless he had an acceptable theory about how vaccines help reduce population growth. You may very well believe that theory to be a cover for more sinister intentions, but the only way to prove that is to refute his "cover" theory. Logical reasoning is the only thing that uncovers truth.

[MykhaMen]

@ThoughtCrime7 there's no way our planet's ecosystem can survive such rapid population growth that has been going on during the past few decades. lowering child mortality rates and infant deaths with vaccines and better health care is vital to achieve the stop in population growth (especially in third world countries)

[gerjaison]

@ThoughtCrime7 - i can't denied he didn't say that but he also spend 6:40 TO 18:39 talking about energy use! Which is the primary context in this video.

Did you spend more time analyzing it?

[BoSoxFan4Life23]

Bill Gates= Genocidal Maniac.

[GameplayCrush]

"Miracles" read Genocide

[lynnybee888]

"foundations" ~~ code word for scam artists . do not believe propaganda coming out of "foundations" , there is always an ulterior motive behind these "foundations" . it's almost like they are just trying toooo hard to convince the rest of us of something. Bill Gates, scammer. There's no such thing as global warming, it's a scam to extract more taxes out of us.

[ThoughtCrime7]

@jwdeming You're right. Pretty scary stuff.

[claton95]

@ThoughtCrime7 10 to 15% by when?!

[brianlai22]

DEATH TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER!

[kurtilein3]

@inmaniac1989

The children of bill gates will get 10 million each, maximum. The rest goes to charity. So something like 99.98% to 99.99% of his wealth will go to charity, most of it to the poorest of the poor where it is most effective. Whats wrong is that you dont get that someone can get incredibly rich, and then wants to give it all back, just because he is a nice guy and fears that anything above 10 million per child might spoil his children.

[kurtilein3]

@AstroTSP

Yeah, 380 parts per million. IF we DONT want climate change to be absolutely catastrophic, it needs to be at or below 350. Its a minor constituent that unfortunately is extremely good at letting short-wavelength light pass, and absorbing long-wavelength radiation.

Damn i just hate these global warming deniers / climate change deniers, that out of ignorance and stupidity want us to run right over the cliff / right into the sword.