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Bill Gates: The private sector is completely inept<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.salon.com/2015/10/29/bill_gates_the_private_sector_is_completely_inept_partner/">http://www.salon.com/2015/10/29/bill_gates_the_private_sector_is_completely_inept_partner/</a><br>
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Bill Gates, still the world’s richest man after all these years,
does not have a lot of faith in his fellow billionaires or even
capitalism when it comes to doing the right thing. It turns out he
thinks the private sector is too selfish and inept to tackle the
dire climate change situation, and relying on it would be courting
disaster. Better to take a quasi socialist approach and remove the
profit motive altogether from this important work.
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background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a wide-ranging interview with<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/11/we-need-an-energy-miracle/407881/"
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class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>recently, Gates tacked
pretty hard to the left. “There’s no fortune to be made,” he said,
when it comes to developing clean energy sources and mitigating
climate change. Besides, he pointed out, “the private sector is in
general inept. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in
that go poorly? By far most of them.”</p>
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background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The tech magnate, who has pledged
$2 billion of his own money for R&D (which seems like a lot
until you consider that he is worth $79.2 billion, according to
Forbes), said he was pleasantly surprised when he dug into the
history of government research into big scientific questions.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px;
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background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Since World War II,
U.S.-government R&D has defined the state of the art in almost
every area,” Gates told the Atlantic. “When I first got into this
I thought, ‘How well does the Department of Energy spend its
R&D budget?’ And I was worried: ‘Gosh, if I’m going to be
saying it should double its budget, if it turns out it’s not very
well spent, how am I going to feel about that? But as I’ve really
dug into it, the DARPA money is very well spent, and the
basic-science money is very well spent. The government has these
‘Centers of Excellence.’ They should have twice as many of those
things, and those things should get about four times as much money
as they do.”<br>
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background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gates is doing a solo world tour
to convince the world’s richest nations to commit to innovating
their way out of catastrophic climate change, a tall order.
Germany and China are already pointing the way to green energy
with some of their socialist policies. Germany has generated as
much as 78 percent of its electricity through renewable sources,
and regularly generates about 30 percent, twice what the U.S.
does. China’s <a
href="http://www.power-technology.com/features/featurechinas-energy-revolution-4643231/"
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0); text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">$80 billion
green energy investment</a> dwarfs that of both the U.S. and
Europe.</p>
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border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 1rem; vertical-align:
baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 1.5rem; background:
transparent;">“I would love to see a tripling, to $18 billion a
year from the U.S. government to fund basic research alone,”
Gates said. “Now, as a percentage of the government budget,
that’s not gigantic… This is not an unachievable amount of
money.”</p>
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baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 1.5rem; background:
transparent;">Still, given the current make-up of the U.S.
Congress, and its funding from the climate-change denying Koch
brothers, Gates will likely face his hardest fight right here at
home.</p>
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