I have recently watched a documentary on Netflix called the mind of Bill Gates. It concentrated on how his mind works, his massive intellect and some of the things the Gates Foundation are doing. The 3 it covered were clean and affordable toilets and drinking water in the 3rd world, the eradication of polio and climate change.
As an aside there was little discussion on climate change itself, Bill Gates accepts the science after researching it and accepts that it’s happening.
His response that the foundation is funding is a new form of nuclear power generation. I don’t totally understand it but it is about significantly reducing to risk of a nuclear accident and also the type of uranium used as well as a major reduction in radioactive waste. He actually had (has) an agreement with China to build a prototype reactor which he did with Xi Jinping himself but that deal was scuppered by the trade war between China and the US.
I’m not a scientist, I’ve already said that on these pages, but its worthwhile watching if you are because it seems to me that the negatives against nuclear power are those he is seeking to alleviate.
Whatever anyone feels about Bill Gates the businessman he does have a mind like a steel trap, it’s formidable. He and others in his team make the point the nuclear reactor design had not really been updated for 50 years.
It was very interesting to me that someone like him would pick that to invest serious amounts of money in as a response to climate change.
