Re:Q&A: Bill Gates on investments in energy technologies
by paul_f on Saturday July 23, 2016 @08:47PM
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The story is about the new Breakthrough Energy Coalition. But there's no information on how to contact the coalition with technologies they should consider. http://www.breakthroughenergycoalition.com/en/index.html In fact, their website says this: "BEC does not accept or consider unsolicited ideas, suggestions, information, or materials of any nature whatsoever"
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Re:Q&A: Bill Gates on investments in energy technologies
by nickff on Saturday July 23, 2016 @09:45PM
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To be fair, most organizations only pay lip service to unsolicited feedback and suggestions; at least these people are being honest.
Re:Q&A: Bill Gates on investments in energy technologies
by safeignorance on Saturday July 23, 2016 @09:53PM
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That doesn't necessarily mean they aren't going to solicit ideas -- either from public calls or (especially) from recognized experts.
Most grant-giving organizations don't accept unsolicited requests for money, but then regularly put out completely public solicitations for proposals on specific topics.
From the article, it sounds like 1) they already have a lot of pretty specific ideas about where to invest; and 2) they're waiting until they coalesce matching funding from other foundations to start making solicitations/rewarding grants/investing in companies.
Re:Q&A: Bill Gates on investments in energy technologies
by dredmorbius on Sunday July 24, 2016 @07:59AM
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Odds of some random individual coming up with a hitherto unknown energy system or source are low. There are other and better ways to discover same.
We've for forces and four root entropic flows to tap: solar, geothermal, nuclear, and tidal.
(Wind, hydro, biomass, and fossil fuels are all solar in origin.)
I'd bet big money there's nothing else will emerge in the next 20 years.
I'd bet on the next 1,000 if I thought I'd live that long.