#225 - Why Bill Gates is Building Nuclear Power Plants | Benji Backer

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🗓️ 10 August 2024

⏱️ 179 minutes

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0:00.0	So I was just in Wyoming two weeks ago, and Bill Gates, who I don't like on a variety of things,
0:05.7	he just unveiled the first next-gen nuclear project, like the first nuclear plant that's not
0:10.5	the old traditional reactor. Wait, Bill Gates did this. He's put in billions of dollars.
0:15.0	Pull that up, Bill Gates' nuclear plant? Yeah. So I was at this event. Basically, five miles from that
0:20.5	is a coal plant that's closing in 2028. The town was about to go bankrupt because the town was completely reliant on this coal plant. And Bill said, this town is where we want to build a nuclear power plant. You got Bill Gates building nukes. Right. Two years ago, this would have been like... Taboo. Oh my God. Well, and he's been working on this for a while but it was so
0:38.4	taboo that even like his own side wasn't gonna even give him the credit or talk about it because he was
0:43.0	kind of doing it on his own island and now everyone's like oh actually he was which which island uh
0:47.6	the nuclear island okay just making sure yeah you gotta be careful around him yeah islands
0:52.1	yeah islands yeah we're off yeah Yeah. You got to be careful around him. Yeah, islands. Yeah. We're on.
0:55.0	Yeah.
0:56.0	Yeah.
0:57.0	What were you, you were meeting with Jared Kushner a half hour ago?
1:06.0	What's going on there?
1:07.0	What's he up to?
1:08.0	We're just trying to figure out how to get the right active on climate, you know.
1:12.6	Jared Kushner's caring about the climate now.
1:14.6	Everyone realizes that there's some energy and national security implications of being bad on the environment.
1:21.6	And China, India, Russia, they're all moving a certain way.
1:32.2	This issue is so much bigger than just the environment and climate.
1:39.2	And I think people are starting to realize that there are other benefits to protecting the environment, protecting climate, moving forward and sensible energy.
1:42.5	More people than I ever were to thought.
1:43.4	Yeah.
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