Wednesday's Energy Absurdity: Bill Gates says 'electricity unfortunately has to be reliable'
Hey, I wonder what tipped him off?
Speaking at the Economic Club in Washington, DC, Bill Gates acknowledged that “electricity, unfortunately, has to be reliable” when asked by an interviewer whether solar power is the magic bullet solution to a shift to 100% renewable energy.
“Wind and solar are very helpful,” Gates says, before admitting that making them a real, viable replacement for other forms of power generation will require “a miracle in storage.”
Talk about deviating from the official narrative - hooboy.
Here is the full exchange as posted on X by @WideAwake_Media:
Host: Now with respect to solar, for example, is solar a solution to our problems?
Gates: It is part of the solution. If the sun would shine 24 hours a day,…
Host: It does, somewhere…
Gates: …then that 25%, you'd have a solution. So, wind and solar are very helpful. And the fact that the prices of those who come down quite a bit, but people think may think that's a total solution to that electric sector. Electricity unfortunately, has to be reliable. It's got to work during, you know, say the ten day period that Tokyo, who needs 23GW of electricity has. You'd have no solar and no wind for, say, ten day period.
And so the, the need to have baseload generation like nuclear and others or to have a miracle in storage so that you can save that energy is very high. The final solution to climate change when we really get to zero, a lot of things that use hydrocarbons today, like natural gas, heating of, buildings or homes will shift over to use electricity.
So one of the necessary elements is to get electricity to zero. But the electric sector, even in the US, will have to more than double in size, because transportation and buildings and industrial applications that have used hydrocarbons directly will shift over to use electricity.
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Oh.
The more you know…
That is all.
Defending the indefensible while admitting the caveat of unreliable generation and storage problems never addressed in the rush to achieve your bona fides as an
expert" prove that you aren't really one.
Says the fool who will continue to do well no matter how much he spouts foolish ideas.
I trust him the same as big government: not.
Half truths aren't gonna cut it, billy.