Posted on 05/30/2019 7:27:28 AM PDT by rktman
Cheap renewables won’t stop global warming, says Bill Gates
“Electricity is just 25 percent of greenhouse gas emissions,” said Gates. “There is no substitute for how the industrial economy runs today.”
When financial analysts proposed rating companies on their CO2 output to drive down emissions, Gates was appalled by the idea that the climate and energy problem would be easy to solve. He asked them: “Do you guys on Wall Street have something in your desks that makes steel? Where is fertilizer, cement, plastic going to come from? Do planes fly through the sky because of some number you put in a spreadsheet?”
“The idea that we have the current tools and it’s just because these utility people are evil people and if we could just beat on them and put (solar panels) on our rooftop—that is more of a block than climate denial,” Gates said. “The ‘climate is easy to solve’ group is our biggest problem.”
Similarly, he knocked down the idea that natural gas replacing coal for generating electricity is helping solve the energy and climate problem.
“The goal is not to take a bow because you use natural gas,” which emits half the carbon dioxide of coal, Gates said. “That contributes zero! In fact, because the forcing function is sooner on natural gas, converting coal to natural gas for the next 50 years and then shutting it down, that’s a net addition” to emissions.
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"Bill Gates downplays renewable energy: “Do you guys on Wall Street have something in your desks that makes steel? Where is fertilizer, cement, plastic going to come from?’"
WTH?! Hole-eee crapola. Who knew so many FReepers were just as smart at billy boy gates? Actually we're smarter since we realize the "greenhouse gas emissions" are mostly hot air and bovine exhaust by products.
Wow, did the earth just stop spinning?
Bill Gates is now an Expert on Global Warming , LOL
Common sense from Bill Gates? Color me stunned!
Its going to get a lot cooler and then what will they say
It is a thirty or forty year cycle..
Holy... Bill had a moment of clarity.
he’s a business expert at least
Shhhhhh! Little sodium reactors? :-)
Very cool technology.
It’s a total waste of time talking about global warming in any context...just like the other major hoax of Russian collusion.
Gates is big on nuclear power and has invested in developing new reactor designs.
For a couple of decades we had a push to reduce pollution. We finally got emissions down to very nearly zero... and they moved the goal-posts. Because if they recognized that our power plants don’t pollute anymore, they’d have nothing to talk about, and nothing to drive fund-raising.
Behind that is the push for centralized control of the economy. Whatever you’ve got, global warming, global cooling, global stayin’-right-where-it-is, the answer is centralized control of the economy, with them at the top.
Will AOC invite him to debate?
“Bill Gates is now an Expert on Global Warming , LOL”
maybe not ... but his common sense explanation that 100% renewable electricity is irrelevant is 100% correct because of the fossil-derived materials necessary to make steel, plastic, fertilizer, cement, and petro-chemicals such as nearly all of our medications ...
Maybe he needs to talk to AOC... isn’t SHE the expert?
Is this satire?
He appears to be leveraging global warming hysteria as a sales strategy.
Welcome aboard the common sense train Bill. Maybe you should send a memo over to the Apple fanboys. Never mind, they still hate you, but at least these days they hate President Trump more.
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