Bill Gates is investing $ 2 billion in "green" energy

Businessman plans to double its investment in this area, as well as in projects to study global climate change. Gates announced that he would double the investment to $ 2 billion, doubling thus support projects related to alternative energy and climate research.

In an interview with Financial Times head of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that try to change the current situation of climate change, doubling the investment in "green energy." It is worth recalling that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the world's largest charitable foundation. This organization provides financial support, and companies engaged in the extraction of fossil fuels.

Now Gates investing in start-ups in the field of renewable energy are estimated at about $ 1 billion. It also projects to create a new type of battery, and projects related to nuclear energy, as well as start-ups, developing carbon capture and storage of CO2 directly from the atmosphere.

According to the report the fund in 2013 in such companies (including BP) organization invested about $ 1, 4 billion. The Fund has been criticized politicians and because of this aspect of their work, but so far, Bill Gates refuses to stop supporting projects related to the extraction of non-renewable resources. According to Gates, the current "green" technology can not yet fully replace the traditional technologies used in the energy sector, and this situation will be relevant until 2030.

Bill Gates believes that there is only one way to reduce the negative human impact associated with traditional power - to invest in projects related to alternative energy sources.

At the same time, Gates calls on governments of various countries to partially abandon subsidies for companies that operate in the field of "green energy", and released funds on research in the same field, but in the study of the development of new technologies for producing energy from renewable sources. Businessman sure that only breakthrough technologies will improve the current situation of climate change.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/252736/