Energy Investments Dialogue | Bill Gates | Global Energy Forum

Why HN readers recommended it

Cited in energy threads for Gates's argument on why batteries and renewables alone fall short and nuclear is needed.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Stanford ENERGY

Topic

clean energy and climate

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

13

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2020

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• This contains a link to the actual discussion [1] which I highly recommend watching. Bill demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of energy systems, guided by one of his favorite authors (Vaclav Smil) who recently wrote the incredible and humbling book, Energy and Civilization [2]. [1] [VIDEO] …

• Solar & wind are great, but no mention of nuclear? (look into Gen IV if concerned about nuclear's reputation) That's looking like what we need most of all if we want to seriously tackle the problem. If you're wondering why, Bill Gates argues a good …

• Here, Bill Gates has done the math: [VIDEO] TLDW: Batteries are several orders of magnitude too expensive to solve the reliability problem or make things like steel and concrete.