Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Intermittency [in availability for wind and solar] changes the economics, particularly this requirement that the power company at all times be able… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Anyway, the US, as in most issues, is the best, has the best capability to lead, and really needs to lead. It… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
So on the demand side [for energy], there have been a variety of policies that globally have been way over $50 billion… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, "Hey, we'll… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, natural-gas peakers sit back there and get financed so that the Midwest corridor can have a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I am surprised that in various countries, whether it's the U.K. or the U.S., you see isolationist tendencies that would tend to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
What are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]. Bangladesh is largely a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The US in some ways has been the best. Who figured out shale gas? Although that wasn't a good thing [for CO2… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
My innovation message, specifically including energy, happened to be the same week that on Monday and Tuesday I announced the Breakthrough Energy… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The most straightforward path would be if we could bring the cost of solar electric and wind down by another factor of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“The cruel injustice is that even though the world’s poor are doing essentially nothing to cause climate change, they’re going to suffer… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I have this very positive view of the world getting better and better. The list of things that could be huge setbacks… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you really could take the CO2, when you burn hydrocarbons - coal, for example - if you could really capture the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
You might say, well, aren't people saying that about wind and solar today? Not really. Only in the super-narrow sense that the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Energy is very primal stuff and there are a lot of leads that are promising, still at a fairly risky stage, but… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Over 80% of the poor are people who have small plots of land and grow their own food and they don't grow… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
![“Intermittency [in availability for wind and solar] changes the economics, particularly this requirement that the power company at all times be able to require power. That's large.” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a58/bill-gates-137_able_intermittency-in-availability-for-wind-a_1198385.jpg)
![“Anyway, the US, as in most issues, is the best, has the best capability to lead, and really needs to lead. It doesn't [mean] that other countries won't pick different tacks and emphasize different things. In aggregate, they're almost half of the energy R&D. Europe, China, Japan - it's very…” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/94a/bill-gates-137_capability_anyway-the-us-as-in-most-issues-is-the-b_1243727.jpg)
![“So on the demand side [for energy], there have been a variety of policies that globally have been way over $50 billion a year of tax credits, raising the price of electricity through things like renewable portfolio standards, so the total amount of money that's gone into sending a price signal to…” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cf4/bill-gates-137_amount_so-on-the-demand-side-for-energy-there-h_2440121.jpg)
![“We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, "Hey, we'll put significant money into [energy innovations] when they're ready to spin out probably into startup companies."” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/61a/bill-gates-137_announcements_we-paired-this-announcement-of-the-r-d-c_3018852.jpg)
![“At the end of the day, natural-gas peakers sit back there and get financed so that the Midwest corridor can have a huge [period] of four to five days of no wind. The peakers are running big time to make that up, because that is the swing piece that can always be turned on.” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ea7/bill-gates-137_big-time_at-the-end-of-the-day-natural-gas-peaker_628668.jpg)
![“What are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet stream kites or new magnets that will allow [energy] generation to be done up there and you just bring the electricity down. You either have to bring down rotational energy…” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9ef/bill-gates-137_carbon_what-are-the-top-20-universities-in-the_121630.jpg)
![“Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]. Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm, it's destructive-type situations like you saw in…” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7c2/bill-gates-137_ability_depending-on-how-quickly-you-get-ocean-r_1273988.jpg)
![“The US in some ways has been the best. Who figured out shale gas? Although that wasn't a good thing [for CO2 levels], it was very innovative. It's led to low-cost energy. Who figured out nuclear power? Largely the United States. Once you get past the steam engine, which is mostly British, then the…” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0fe/bill-gates-137_british_the-us-in-some-ways-has-been-the-best-wh_251716.jpg)
