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Bill Gates

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

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Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions.
Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis. Gates says, “we can work on a local, national, and global level to build the technologies, businesses, and industries to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.” His interest in climate change is a natural outgrowth of the efforts by his foundation to reduce poverty and disease. Climate change, according to Gates, will have the biggest impact on the people who have done the least to cause it. As a technologist, he has seen first-hand how innovation can change the world. By investing in research, inventing new technologies, and by deploying them quickly at large…
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  • ayuphas quoted2 hours ago
    sum up, the path to zero emissions in manufacturing looks like this:
    Electrify every process possible. This is going to take a lot of innovation.
    Get that electricity from a power grid that’s been decarbonized. This also will take a lot of innovation.
    Use carbon capture to absorb the remaining emissions. And so will this.
    Use materials more efficiently. Same.
  • ayuphas quoted2 hours ago
    making plastics. If enough pieces come together, plastics could one day become a carbon sink—a way to remove carbon rather than emit it.
  • ayuphas quoted2 hours ago
    molten oxide electrolysis: Instead of burning iron in a furnace with coke, you pass electricity through a cell that contains a mixture of liquid iron oxide and other ingredients. The electricity causes the iron oxide to break apart, leaving you with the pure iron you need for steel, and pure oxygen as a by-product. No carbon dioxide is produced at all.

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