Bill Gates

The Wyoming startup received funding from the American billionaire's fund.And now it promises to revolutionize the renewables market by lowering costs

Attendees gather at Session 6 of TED2022: A New Era on April 12, 2022 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. (Photo: Stacie McChesney / TED)

The billionaire nuclear deals of the "philanthrocapitalist" Bill Gates have landed at the Conference of the Parties on climate change, COP 28, where an agreement was signed declaration to triple nuclear energy by 2050 (compared to 2020), so as to achieve the objectives of zero net emissions.The tycoon has long been involved in design of new nuclear reactors for the production of clean energy, through a company he founded in 2008, Terra Power, whose first power plant was located in Kemmerer, a town in Wyoming with less than 3 thousand inhabitants.The billionaire entrepreneur's goal is to "save the planet" from global warming by promoting the energy transition through new sources of clean energy.With this goal, the founder of Microsoft did not hesitate to influence government policies promoting its vision of the energy future at COP 28.The declaration to increase nuclear energy was signed, in fact, by 22 countries, including the USA, Great Britain and France, under ex...

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