Bill Gates Expected to Create Billion-Dollar Fund for Clean Energy (2015)
If a &quot;clean energy&quot; philanthropist really wanted to steer the world away from fossil fuels, they would lobby for the replacement of coal and oil with nuclear.<p>It is impossible to meet rising global energy needs without either a: nuclear energy as a wedge, b: divine advancements in renewable tech and cost, or c: burning a ton ton ton of fossil fuels.<p>I dream of a post-energy-scarcity-star-trek future pretty often, but the fact is that barring some revolutionary technological advancement, nuclear is the only long term hope we have to wean ourselves away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energies. &quot;Green&quot; tech it ain&#x27;t either: refining rare earths is environmentally disastrous and even recycling the waste can be quite hazardous, such as lead battery recycling plants in Africa resulting in lead poisoning in surrounding communities.<p>If we want to be serious about renewable energy and the long road it will take to get there, we will have to get over our fears of Chernobyl and Homer Simpson running the power plant