# 🎤 Bill Gates: 2010 TED Talk

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#### Card #09: 🎤 Bill Gates: 2010 TED Talk

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At TED 2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he's backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. "This equation has four factors, a little bit of multiplication. So you've got a thing on the left, CO2, that you want to get to zero, and that's going to be based on the number of 👥 people, the services each person is using on average, the energy, on average, for each service, and the CO2 being put out per unit of energy. So let's look at each one of these, and see how we can get this down to zero. Probably, one of these numbers is going to have to get pretty near to zero." "First, we've got 📊 population. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could 📈 lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent." "The second factor is the services w

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At TED 2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he's backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. 

"This equation has four factors, a little bit of multiplication. So you've got a thing on the left, CO2, that you want to get to zero, and that's going to be based on the number of 👥 people, the services each person is using on average, the energy, on average, for each service, and the CO2 being put out per unit of energy. So let's look at each one of these, and see how we can get this down to zero. Probably, one of these numbers is going to have to get pretty near to zero."

"First, we've got 📊 population. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could 📈 lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent."

"The second factor is the services we use. This encompasses everything: the food we eat, clothing, TV, heating."

Links:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaF-fq2Zn7I
- https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_innovating_to_zero/transcript%25204/transcript

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