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Bill Gates thinks he has a key part of the answer for combating climate change: a return to nuclear power. The Microsoft co-founder is making the rounds on Capitol Hill to persuade Congress to spend billions of dollars over the next decade for pilot projects to test new designs for nuclear power reactors.
Gates, who founded TerraPower in 2006, is telling lawmakers that he personally would invest $1 billion and raise $1 billion more in private capital to go along with federal funds for a pilot of his company’s never-before-used technology, according to congressional staffers.
“Nuclear is ideal for dealing with climate change, because it is the only carbon-free, scalable energy source that’s available 24 hours a day,” Gates said in his year-end public letter. “The problems with today’s reactors, such as the risk of accidents, can be solved through innovation.”
(Score: 2) by corey on Tuesday January 29 2019, @01:23AM (1 child)
Building nuclear power plants on islands that sit on, and were created by, the Ring Of Fire? What could possibly go wrong?
Then here in Australia, there's so much back pressure against nuclear generation. But it's the most geologically and politically stable place on Earth.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Tuesday January 29 2019, @06:19AM
So what? I still propose we built all our plants in NZ and send the energy over.... oh yesss