Posted on 05/20/2021 3:51:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Bill Gates has written a book: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. Unfortunately, the book is a disaster.
Bill Gates has written a book: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. Unfortunately, the book is a disaster. He doesn’t get past the introduction before making mistakes that negate the rest of the book. He claims Carbon Dioxide emissions must be reduced to zero to avoid a climate disaster. Assuming that CO2 can even cause a climate disaster, about half the CO2 emitted every year is reabsorbed by the Earth – by the oceans and by plants. Thus, you don’t need zero, a fifty percent reduction would stop the rise of CO2 in the atmosphere. It is vastly more difficult to cut out all emissions compared to cutting them in half.
Gates claims we have to deploy solar and wind faster and smarter. I wrote a book about wind and solar with the title: Dumb Energy. There is no smart deployment of wind and solar. They are very dumb and very, very expensive. It is routine for solar to cost five times more than electricity from natural gas. Heavy solar deployment makes it even more expensive due to the use of auxiliary batteries.
Gates says we need to create and roll out breakthrough technologies. That’s called the pie in the sky.
Bill Gates strikes me as a good guy, especially compared to the nasty guys running Apple, Facebook and Twitter. He is sincerely trying to help the poor people of the world through his foundation. He is simply out of his depth on climate and is probably talking only to the promoters of climate disaster. There are plenty of scientists that are climate skeptics.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Healthcare and means of production, the easiest ways to control a society.
He low-balled a price on existing code, and ported it to a PC for IBM. He only did that because his mom was a secretary to an IBM exec and he had an inside track.
Since that first step, he's hired smart people, but he hasn't done any of the work.
Ain’t no big deal. They just want us deformed, diseased, never born or DEAD. Billionaire Gate$ and friends.
The Art of the No Deal, dollarBill.
I’ve around some really really smart (award winning) people. Their opinions outside their area of expertise are pretty pedestrian. They really have no more validity than those of your average truck driver.
I’m not sure why people think Billy is so smart.
He low-balled a price on existing code, and ported it to a PC for IBM. He only did that because his mom was a secretary to an IBM exec and he had an inside track.>>>
He actually copied CPM and I’m not sure he even changed anything. Maybe cosmetics. Then his mom got the contract. What a loser. bought lots of good software. put his name on it and then screwed it up.
“There is no smart deployment of wind...”
Maybe in Denmark or Scotland or some parts of Texas wind has a place.
There are some US east coast offshore wind farm proposals that are absurdly expensive. These should be killed.
Joe Biden’s climate czar John Kerry:
“I’m told by scientists that 50% of the reductions we have to make (to get to near zero emissions) by 2050 or 2045 are going to come from technologies we don’t yet have.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57135506
Solar is more suited to the Third World and rural China.
Solar power is more than just solar panels. American homes and their energy-consuming devices simply aren’t designed to work well or easily with solar power.
“climate disaster”
A Puerto Rican gal is going to be able to live quite comfortably in a DC and a NYC that are two degrees warmer than now.
Training unicorns to run on treadmills?
“Offshore wind cost £120/MWh in 2018 with new installations forecasting a lower cost of £58/MWh (5.8p/kWh) in 2022.”
“Onshore wind costs just £65/MWh now and forecasted at £46/MWh in 2022 (4.6p/kWh).”
“Wind energy generates 14.8% of all electricity in the UK.”
“40% of all wind energy generated over Europe blows over the UK.”
https://www.businesselectricityprices.org.uk/wind-turbine-facts
A pound(£) is worth about about $1.41 and a typical US wholesale electricity price is about $20/MWh. The UK is looking to pay about three/four times as much for electricity from future onshore/offshore wind power installations.
Reduce CO2 to zero .
Plant life inhales CO2 .
Plant life exhales Oxygen.
Zero CO2 , all plant life dies.
All plant life dies
All humans die.
This isn’t computer or rocket science.
Smh
Heavy Sigh.
Bill Gates was smart enough to employ other smarter people who ran Microsoft while he got free stock and got rich and cheated on his wife.
No carbon dioxide means no life.
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