Bill Gates on Energy, Climate and the Traveling Wave Reactor
I just watched a great TED talk by Bill Gates. He cogently explains the real threat of climate change, particularly to the world’s poorest 2 billion people. He goes on to describe the urgent demand for an energy breakthrough that can radically reduce the planet’s carbon emissions. He also discusses exciting innovations in nuclear power which, on the face of them, sound pretty convincing:
UPDATE: Thomas Friedman also wrote with clarity about climate change in the New York Times this week.
Piccinini Giuseppe Raoul