The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: rangerrebew on July 13, 2023, 12:09:44 pm
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May 20, 2021
Smart People Say Dumb Things: Bill Gates Edition
By Norman Rogers
Bill Gates has written a book: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. Unfortunately, the book is a disaster. He doesn’t get past the introduction before making mistakes that negate the rest of the book. He claims Carbon Dioxide emissions must be reduced to zero to avoid a climate disaster. Assuming that CO2 can even cause a climate disaster, about half the CO2 emitted every year is reabsorbed by the Earth – by the oceans and by plants. Thus, you don’t need zero, a fifty percent reduction would stop the rise of CO2 in the atmosphere. It is vastly more difficult to cut out all emissions compared to cutting them in half.
Gates claims we have to deploy solar and wind faster and smarter. I wrote a book about wind and solar with the title: Dumb Energy. There is no smart deployment of wind and solar. They are very dumb and very, very expensive. It is routine for solar to cost five times more than electricity from natural gas. Heavy solar deployment makes it even more expensive due to the use of auxiliary batteries.
Gates says we need to create and roll out breakthrough technologies. That’s called the pie in the sky.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/05/smart_people_say_dumb_things_bill_gates_edition.html