Posted on 02/23/2016 6:35:16 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
It is amazing how these tech-billionaires know so much after they have made more money and live in palatial houses.
there was a great demotivational poster shows al gores (swap for ole billy boy) massive house with the following comment:
when the people who say its a crisis start behaving like it a crisis, then i will believe its a crisis..
i would like to add my own irish line on the bottom,
STFU Bill
If only someone a little bit brighter and smarter could develop a source of energy that worked something like the sun.
It would produce tremendous amounts of power from just a small amount of matter and could power homes, industry, trains, and ships.
They could give it a catchy name - something like NUCLEAR POWER.
Everytime Windows crashes, some polar ice melts.
LOL! I’ll second that. Think of all the good he can do for the planet!
Is it just me but does being a billionaire have to make you stupid also?
You know what causes global warming? My hard drive when it spins into triple-overdrive and sheds waves of heat, trying to digest the latest bulls*** Windows Update.
Hey Gates, I have an idea, send me $1 billion. ..
You don't "discover" miracles.
They just miraculously happen on their own.
No matter how much money a billionaire elitist can get the government to extort from other people to spend on his ideas.
Gates has been sniffing way too many Motherboards
Thorium
Wow. What a visionary. If only someone had realized that sooner.
If only I had no morals whatsoever, I'm sure I could also be as rich as that guy.
There’s no fool like a rich fool.
We need a "Miracle" all right, but not one regarding energy.
The "Miracle" we need is for ignorant mouthy Liberals to shut up about a topic which they don't understand, yet worship like a god.
Shut up Bill Gates. You owe your wealth to luck, lawyering, and theft, (from Apple) not to producing a quality product.
You are the sort of sh*t stain person that degrades civilization. Just shut up!
You know it. I know it. They know it.
It’s a power grab. Nothing else.
But solving the CO2 riddle plus the mercury and other smokestack metals would finally conclude the debate.
We have that miracle. Under Obama, civilization is on the verge of collapse. No civilization = no fossil fuels = no so-called global warming. Problem solved.
For such a smart guy he has gone completely off the rails concerning climate.
Hey Bill, it’s called nuclear.
Stick to software, Bill. Your company doesn’t even do such a great job with that, you know, so maybe if you’d be a little more hands-on your company would be better off.
Meanwhile, leave climate science and politics to others, because your genius is NOT transferable.
If gates were serious, he would bankroll the construction of new generation nuclear powerplants, along with restoring our spent fuel recycling capacity. After Three Mile Island, the US all but abandoned nuclear power; the rest of the world kept moving forward with better and more efficient designs. Just reprocessing spent fuel rods saves on fuel costs, and reduces the amount of high level waste that needs to be stored. Even then there are reactor designs that can utilize that waste to produce power. The obstacles are not technical, they are political.
Next best is the mother of solar power: hydroelectric power. Combine sunlight, weather, and gravity, and you can generate an amazing amount of power with a well placed dam. The Columbia river hydroelectric dam system is a perfect example of this concept.
The holy grail of power generation though is fusion power, or more specifically, direct conversion of fusion to electron flow, without intermediate energy conversion steps.
And finally we come down to coal. Coal fired plants have been engineered to wring as much power as possible out of existing direct fired designs, as well as cleaning up the combustion products. What would be even better would be destructive distillation of coal, and burning the product in a combined cycle plant. That way, you can generate power, and reclaim valuable industrial products in the process. This isn’t new technology; “coal gas” or “producer gas” was used for lighting and heat throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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