“Any tool that helps instill God's Word in the lives of people is something I can enthusiastically endorse!” Quote by Robert Jeffress
“The most straightforward path would be if we could bring the cost of solar electric and wind down by another factor of say, three, and then have some miraculous storage solution, so that not only over the 24-hour day but over long periods of time where the wind doesn't blow, you have reliable energy. That's a path. But energy storage is hard. That's not a guaranteed path.” IfsLongHardWould BeThreeEnergyHoursPathWindPeriodsCostSolutionsBlowFactorsElectricMiraculousStraightforwardStorageLong Periods Of Time Author:Bill Gates
“I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in.” CompanyBatteries Author:Bill Gates
“In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.” PeopleWayFirstsTwoWould BeEnergyDarkRaceCarAmountDiscoveryHorseOilInternalsTexasElectricObscureSteamGasolinePennsylvaniaDensityFootnotesCombustionElectric CarDark Horse Author:Bill Gates
“When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now it's down to 5%. And saying why, over all history, there were smart people, but that number didn't change. Average life span didn't change. What's magical about what's been deemed the Industrial Revolution? It's really energy intensity.” PeopleTryingYearsKidsLastsEnergyNumbersGoneDyingFiguresRevolutionSmartThirdsAverageIntensitySmart PeopleIndustrial RevolutionLife SpanAverage Life Author:Bill Gates
“It's energy intensification, where we essentially have, through our light bulbs and cars, the manpower of [hundreds of] people working on our behalf, helping our food being created, helping our materials like steel and plastic and wood and paper be created. Our lifestyles are incredibly energy intense.” PeopleHelpingLightEnergyCarMaterialsPaperWoodsLifestyleIntensePlasticSteelBehalfBulbsLight BulbManpower Author:Bill Gates
“I've been studying how quickly we can get energy out to the poor countries - a lot of which are in Africa - and how little progress we've made there. There's no more electricity today in sub-Saharan Africa per person than there was 20 years ago.” YearsLittlesPersonsMadeCountryTodayEnergyPoorStudyProgressYears AgoElectricityPoor CountriesSub Saharan Africa Author:Bill Gates
“The world is very disparate, in terms of the US using the most energy per person, and then the other rich countries - Europe, Japan, New Zealand - using about half of what we do, and then the world average being about a fifth of what we use, with China just now surpassing the world average.” WorldPersonsCountryUseEnergyTermHalfRichEuropeAverageChinaJapanFifthNew ZealandSurpassingRich Countries Author:Bill Gates
“When I say "miracle" I mean a kind of thing like a computer on a chip, or the internet, or the cellphone, that are really quite miraculous. Most people would not have predicted them, and their effect has been very, very dramatic.” PeopleKindMeanHas BeensEffectsInternetComputerMiracleDramaticChipsMiraculousCellphone Author:Bill Gates
“How much further beyond basic research the role of the government should be, you could have a really good debate about it. Almost nobody would say it's zero. But that's where at least we need the private sector to play a big role.” NeedsShouldPlayBigsGovernmentRolesResearchDebateZeroBe YouPrivate SectorBasic Research Author:Bill Gates
“When I say "an energy miracle," I mean that there will be some form of energy whose 24 hour cost really is competitive with hydrocarbons given, say, 20 years of learning curve. You invent it, then you look at how much its costs go down over the next 20 years, that it really beats hydrocarbons.” YearsLooksMeanFormNextEnergyGivenHoursCostBeatsMiracleCurvesLearning CurveHydrocarbons Author:Bill Gates