Innovating to Zero

This is a talk by Bill Gates at the TED conference discussing the need and the challenges of getting enough renewable energy to power not only those who are energy rich now, but those who need to be energy rich. He does a nice job here, I think, in contextualizing the problem, then spends a good deal of time talking about Terrapower. He does note that he is an investor in this company, so it would be fair to note that Gates may be doing his own T. Boone Pickens turn here. But there is something important happening here — a man who made a fortune capitalizing on technologies that transformed the way many of us work and how we connect to the world, and who is using that fortune to try to reduce poverty has decided that the most important thing he can do is to help get the planet to zero net CO2 emissions. And since Gates isn’t in the business of just giving away his money for this venture, it I wonder if this signals clean energy technology and R&D and the next PC or internet:

For abit more info on how these reactors work, you can watch the video on the IntellectualVentures site.