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Breakthrough Energy Venture’s odd investments, a mixture of sensible, venture-capital aligned start ups focused on climate action with a higher percentage that make no sense, have comewho founded it, including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson and others had managed to get the wrong end of the stick has been a focus. I’ve published on it regularly. As a result, Laurent Segalen and Gerard Reid over at Redefining Energy asked me to join them to discuss it.
That’s a big one. He’s off by a lot in terms of energy requirements when he discounts electrification. The second one, to your point, he doesn’t understand economies or manufacturing scale and modularity. He’s still thinking big. Gigawatts scale coal and nuclear plants, as opposed to manufactured components, put into an optimized global supply chain and constructed in parallel over an extended period of time.
And worse, they say, oh, look, Bill Gates is saying the same thing as we do, we need oil and nuclear. And then a lot of minions, I don’t want to name names, but I’m regularly in fights with those guys on LinkedIn, people who I’m talking about.Michael, thank you very much for summarizing that. I mean, I couldn’t have done better. It was great. I think you ended up talking about nuclear, and I’m not going to blame Smil for nuclear and Bill Gates.
They tend to have people and filters around them which give them more of what they want to know than what they don’t want to know. McKay and Smil were speaking to Bill Gates’s cognitive biases around energy, and he wasn’t receiving solid stuff that challenged his biases from the people around him. They weren’t saying, Bill, you were right 15 years ago, but it’s time to change your mind. It’s hard. I’ve spoken to people who are bounced off the bubble around Gates, and it really is.
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