Bill Gates is right and I for one have already put my limited money where my mouth is. And it isn't in Elon Musk's batteries.
David.

Bill Gates is just another rich man who is immune from the bullshite he talks.

I think this is a great idea.

Then many of these global warming scam believing fools can lose their money when the companies trying to use the scam to make fortunes go belly up as so many already have. many of them went broke in spite of hundreds of millions in taxpayer funds given to them by fools like Obama.

Yes! Can't lose on energy!

But needs to be reliable, dispatchable and carbon-free! And apart from household homemade biogas, made from all your own personal organic waste!

There are just two standout options that both address climate change and ethical investing! And here we are limited to MSR thorium, which can also be tasked to very safely burn up and use all the unspent energy in nuclear waste and if sanity prevails all our stores of weapon-grade plutonium!

The other is graphene, the strongest material on the planet, with the added attraction of being a superconductor, and therefore by implication, able to quite massively reduce much of the transmission and distribution losses.

Graphene can be spread as a ling wrap thick film under highways and byways to transmit energy to the energy consumer. And as such will provide a useable magnetic field able to be deployed to recharge electric vehicle fitted with induction magnetic plates, as the travel in any direction.

And as a bonus, Highways, byways and infrastructure needing far fewer repairs and routine maintenance! The other, being able to service up to 3 times as many customers from the same power generation source!

Parenthetically, few layers of buried graphene film, buried as different strata levels, can make bunker-buster bombs, obsolete!
Alan B.

Thorium is four times more abundant than uranium. Is less radioactive than a banana? And in MSR, able to make a healthy profit at prices below 3 cents PKWH! So it ticks all the boxes, addresses climate change, is the safest form of power generation on the planet, is extremely reliable, dispatchable, very affordable and is carbon and guilt-free energy! Thorium delivers everything fusion promised, but never ever delivered!

Can be mass-produced as shipping container-sized modules that can be placed where we now have district substations, to feed directly into microgrids. To massively improve profit margins, hugely reduce costs, blackouts, repairs and maintenance etc.

And can be paralleled as required to provide larger capacity for manufacture and electric trains trams etc on known unchangeable routes. And as entities, need larger, variable, generation capacity
Alan B.

If carbon tariffs and the consequent massive devaluing of coal oil and gas, to a level where we won't be able to give the stuff away, forced to use it locally and domestically to a massively oversupplied market, if the electorate allows!? (And coming to a neighbourhood near you!)

How could we earn a buck from energy or exported energy, exports tha almost stand alone as supporting smaller economies!?

I mean we've all but gifted our manufacturing economy via incomprehensible and absolutely asinine government policies!

Well, We could if the political will, vision and leadership prevails or otherwise manifests! Export much more energy than now at far better returns to us, as exported generated energy! Exported via undersea graphene cored cables!?

Yes, it'd cost billions! Billions we could earn as annual billions as the world's safest repository for the world's nuclear waste.

Then before burying it, burning it in MSR's to extract the remaining 98% remaining energy component!

And the power we generate in the world's safest energy generation with reliable, dispatchable almost free to us energy!

And give the above paradigm is enacted via government investment and policy, able to, like the too expensive, Snowy mountains visionary project, eventually in around fifty or so years, not only repay all the investment but start to earn a healthy profit in its own right as reticulated power.

The only criteria, this sort of publicly funded income earning, cash cow infrastructure, must never ever be privatised but used to underwrite, facilitate and fund cooperative enterprise and s a consequence, massively grow the economy without needing to grow the population base.

Also, allow us to drought-proof the nation and turn arid unproductive land into productive gardens and a food bowl for a world where the next boom will be a food boom!
Alan B.