Posted on 12/12/2016 1:18:23 PM PST by PROCON
Full Title: Bill Gates teams up with Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos to lead a $1 BILLION venture to tackle climate change
In a bid to tackle climate change, Bill Gates has joined forces with some of the richest people in the world, including Sir Richard Branson and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, to create a £800 million ($1 billion) fund.
The initiative, named Breakthrough Energy Ventures, plans to invest in green energy over 20 years.
Its funders hope that this long-term approach will help to deliver the next generation of reliable and affordable energy to the world.
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Just no more tax payer dollars for these green energy scams.
Better than 0bama using tax funds.
And oDds are that NONE of that collection of clowns could pass a good calculus level physics course.
If it’s their own money, Godspeed to them. They’ll find out the truth much more quickly when their own bucks are flying out the door.
For $500,000,000 I’ll tell them things are getting better - I’ll even throw in a graph or two.
In the end, it will have the exact same effect as whatever they have planned while saving them a half a billion dollars.
Step #1) Ther gonna do away with their private jets and,in future,fly Economy
Step #2) They’re gonna demand that Leonardo DiCaprio give up his 450 foot private yacht
That’s my attitude too. If they pony over their own money and they don’t ask for or accept taxpayer money, or use their $$ or influence to lobby for self serving regulations, then have at it.
I'd suggest that MicroSoft should off itself in the best interests of the Environment.
If they are so sure about climate change, then they should invest in dairy farms in Greenland. They thrived from about 1000 to 1350.
Good luck with that, boys. As long as you are putting your own venture capital at risk and not seeking tax subsidies then I applaud you and hope you are successful.
I’ll do the same, but for $499,000,000!
just more Microslop....
” backing cheap and reliable energy sources.”
If that is true, I wish them luck.
Go for it. Right now Amazon is probably racking up a bigger carbon footprint than any other organization on the planet.
as long as it is a free market solution and not mandatory participation. That said, if this is non-profit then is this open source ideas for free?
>>Just no more tax payer dollars for these green energy scams.
Most of that billion will pay for lobbyists and media and provide seed money for companies that will get tax money.
my lifetime carbon footprint is prob less than any these guys for one week.
There’s nothing wrong with finding real energy alternatives, or investing in them. Ingenuity in action, great stuff.
However, stop threatening us, and stop legislating to force those changes. If this is successful, it will market itself. I don’t know anyone opposed to finding alternate energy sources. It’s all the socialism the globalists have been using to force us to get “collective” that disturbs liberty loving people.
Awww, cool! Think of all the feel-good memes that will ooze from this super-dynamic-ultra-successful trio./s
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