Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 13:52:08 +0000
A fusion energy company that counts executives such as Eric Schmidt and Bill Gates among its backers has emerged from stealth, announcing $900 million in pledged funding. Pacific Fusion, whose […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:41:14 +0000
A startup company whose investors include Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the group led by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, said it has received about $14 million in new funding in support of […]
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Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:34:43 +0000
Recently I sat down with Laurent Segalen and Gerard Reid, European cleantech investors, on their podcast Redefining Energy to talk about Breakthrough Energy Venture’s big misses. This followed our conversation about the cognitive biases of the billionaires such as Bill Gates which have persisted due to a bubble of confirmation … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:18:46 +0000
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 come under my scrutiny for years. Similarly, trying to figure out why the climate-aware billionaire oligarchs who founded it, including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 23:07:44 +0000
Eight years ago, Bill Gates and group of his closest billionaire acquaintances launched an incredibly well funded venture capital group. Its noble mission was funding and supporting transformative technologies aimed at mitigating climate change. Many of its investments are sound and if commercialized, would assist, at least a bit. However, … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 15:50:50 +0000
Bill Gates’ nuclear innovation firm TerraPower has broken ground on the non-nuclear portion of Kemmerer Unit 1, a 345-MW Natrium sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) power plant. The groundbreaking on June […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:29:03 +0000
A group established by Microsoft founder Bill Gates is preparing to begin construction of a new generation of nuclear power plants in June, according to the company’s chief executive. Chris […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 12:48:00 +0000
A Massachusetts-based group developing an energy storage system to support renewable energy resources is moving forward with plans for a prototype facility outside Boston. Fourth Power on Dec. 12 said […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 21:13:52 +0000
A few months ago, a STEM and economics literate global decarbonization executive for a $4 billion annual revenue logistics business … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 19:55:10 +0000
How much technological and economic idiocy can be jammed into a single week and why does it have to rhyme? … [continued]
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