Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Team Up to Transform Nuclear Power

Oil Price ^ | 06/27/2024 | Haley Zaremba

[SeekAndFind]

In fact, the increased demand from the tech sector has become so extreme that, for the first time in years, energy demand growth from the developed world has surpassed that of developing countries, flipping a long-running script on its head.

[bigbob]

That would be good. Small Modular Reactors (SMR) can become the primary source of generation in a decade if we had a “man on the moon” type national priority program.

[AZJeep]

Finally, I can agree with Bill Gates!

[Dat]

I haven’t heard much about Warren Buffet for years. Is he still a Democrat?

[broken_clock]

Yeah no kidding, what’s the catch? If France can do it why can’t we?

[laplata]

Finally, I can agree with Bill Gates!

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Me, too on this, but Gates and his cronies always have ulterior motives which are not good.

[The Duke]

This would be something I would invest in.

[LastDayz]

Thorium reactors maybe or is that too 1960’s?

[HIDEK6]

I thought Gates was a tree hugger.

[Zathras]

Someone who knows nothing about technology teamed up with someone who bought an operating system and put his name on it.
What could go wrong?
“Hey we can probably reuse the Blue Screen of Death!”

[EQAndyBuzz]

I’m guessing at some point Martin Sheen will be rolled out long enough to say nuclear power bad.

[norwaypinesavage]

Great plan, except that they are at least three decades late. This simply goes to prove the point that some billionaires get rich because they were smart businessmen, and some get rich because they were lucky. Gates and Buffett are clearly the latter.

[PGalt]

Any individual who discontinues Bill Gates will be a hero to civilization. How much death can one person cause?

[Bookshelf]

A general discussion on small reactors has been going on now for twenty years at least. Small thorium reactors was once the touchstone, now I’m not sure what invention leads the way.

[PIF]

Me, too on this, but Gates and his cronies always have ulterior motives which are not good.

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If he did before, then he does now. Spots do not change.

[conservativeimage]

Standard policy: keep omnicidal depopulationists away from nukes.

[JeanLM]

“This would be something I would invest in.”
Go ahead (SMR). I did. Also Fuel Cell Energy (FECL). They go together. Efficient co-generation and hydrogen too.

[The Duke]

Thank you! :)

[Wuli]

“That would be good. Small Modular Reactors (SMR) can become the primary source of generation in a decade if we had a “man on the moon” type national priority program.”

It needs to be faster than that. It needs to be more like a Manhattan project combined with manufacturing on the scale of WWII for the military.

[103198]

The Terrapower Natrium is fast neutron spectrum sodium cooled reactor. It breeds and burns plutonium and should yield high fuel burnup. I haven't completed reading the Preliminary Safety Analysis Report (PSAR) at https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2408/ML24088A065.pdf. It is a very interesting design. Mass production of these plants could yield interesting economics. I haven't read the referenced article yet, but they broke ground June 10th in Wyoming for the “secondary” plant and awaiting NRC approval.