Bill Gates' nuclear venture plans reactor to complement solar, wind power boom

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A nuclear energy venture founded by Bill Gates said Thursday it hopes to build small advanced nuclear power stations that can store electricity to supplement grids increasingly supplied by intermittent sources like solar and wind power.

FILE PHOTO: Bill Gates, Co-Chair of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, attends a conversation at the 2019 New Economy Forum in Beijing, China November 21, 2019. REUTERS/Jason Lee - RC2MFD9FAT7I/File Photo

TerraPower LLC, which Gates founded 14 years ago, and its partner GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, plan to commercialize stations called Natrium in the United States later this decade, TerraPower’s President and Chief Executive Chris Levesque said.Levesque said the companies are seeking additional funding from private partners and the U.S.

Molten salt power storage has been used at thermal solar plants in the past, but leaks have plagued some of the projects. Gates, chairman of TerraPower’s board, said in a statement that Natrium innovation was “extremely difficult” but its team had “the expertise, commercial experience, and the resources necessary” to develop viable reactors.

 

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He gave us a buggy slow OS, defective, and now he's dabbing in nuclear power. What's the worst that can happen ?

thx for the message of the day

Hey Bill....Wheres all the waste going to go from ALL these little wee powerplants?

TheAlexKnapp Hogwash. Here's what this is about seeking additional funding (from ... and the U.S. Energy Department) chrismartenson

Newer and safer design

Will he have a vaccine ready for the windmill cancer Im about to get?!

Y’all think Bill gates is going to take over the world then bend yourselves over for Trump so pathetic.

A creep!

looks like Stephen Hawking.

Didn't he say he wanted to block out the sun?🤔🤔 Bamphomet must be proud

Thot this guy was against global warming,now this

And what gives you the authority to have medical solution's with no medical degree, or license?

Well then Bill Gates is an F**KING IDIOT...and he can live next to it!

Let's talk about the pandemic, and how you plan to put A chip in every living being on earth Gates?

great, now he will nuke us

E SE JESUS FOSSE POBRE, NEGRO E CARECA , E TODA VEZ QUE ELE SAÍSSE DE CASA FOSSE CHAMADO DE LADRÃO PELOS POLICIAIS NO POSTO 8 DA BARRA OU PELOS RICOS DA ZONA ZUL DO RJ? E POR QUE DEUS FARIA JESUS NEGRO E NÃO LOIRÃO DOS OLHOS AZUÍS ? POR QUÊ ? POR QUÊ ? POR QUÊ ?

Good.

Why invest so many resources for something we really don't need? Using a reliable clean power source, NP, means Way less resources needed, which means it is a greener solution.

Terra Power en el SIC por favor GBMhomebroker

Maybe its time we all live in tune with our planet, and accept that our energy should purely come from solar wind wave and hydro. As such there will be times days and weeks when energy isnt abundant and prioritised to utilities and industry. Need to use Domestic solar and storage

Yes, the numbers don’t work unless we include nuclear in the mix. There are new designs. The ones that have failed were designed around 60 years ago.

Trying in the US now, and when they say 'Abroad,' meaning after trying in the US he will return to China and try working with/for The CCP Again.

Does this mean Bill and Al Gore aren't talking any more ?

World needs nuclear if we really care about climate and want stable electricity source.

Anything this devil does is dangerous to the humanity...

REPENT

Sounds like a brilliant plan: use sodium as an energy storage. As soon as there's a problem with the heat exchanger the water will contact extremely hot sodium and the thing goes boom! Sodium would be at the bottom of my list of materials to consider.

With chalk dust?

Virologist, engineer, nuclear physicist...the only thing he's not able to do....make Windows working...😋😎😋

Basket case.. God complex

🇮🇹

There’s a huge NIMBY factor on nuclear energy. I don’t see it happening.

Too bad the USA won't try out these new designs, including those that use prior nuclear waste as the energy source, and those that by design don't need water pumped in to cool and don't those that don't suffer the need to enrich which creates weapons fears.

BİLİCİĞİM NASILSIN? MC DALILTDA DONDURMA YEMEYE GİDİYORMUSUN? DİŞLERİMDE SORUN VAR BEN GİDEMİYORUM!

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