Here Are the Energy Miracles Bill Gates Is Hoping For
U.S. energy futurists fire up their thinking turbines for a once-a-year brain fest.
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates made news last week when he called for an “energy miracle” that would halt climate change and reduce the cost of energy. “I don’t mean something that’s impossible,” he wrote in his annual letter. Gates wants a miracle akin to the polio vaccine or the personal computer.
Hundreds of potential minor miracles are on display this week at the annual confab of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a part of the U.S. Department of Energy. The event features keynote speakers including Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska); Victor Abate, General Electric’s chief technology officer; and Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank.