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Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on February 25, 2016.

I'm Steve Murski. On this episode, people say, oh, there's a water

shortage. Well, another way to say that is that energy is too expensive, because converting this thing

we have called ocean into clean water anywhere, that's all the matter of pay for the desalination and pay for the pumping.

That's Bill Gates. On February 22nd, Scientific American Energy and Environment reporter David Beello

met with Gates here in New York City. Gates was in town to publicize his foundation's annual

letter. This year's edition focuses in part on

coming up with ways to tackle carbon emissions, while at the same time making necessary energy

available to ever more of the globe's growing population. Now, the conversation does get a little

bit jargony at times, so let me tell you a few

things to look out for.

When you hear Dave and Bill Gates talk about CCS, that's carbon capture and storage, terra power

is a nuclear reactor design company.

Terra power also refers to a class of nuclear fast reactors that they are designing.

You'll also hear the expression, peakers. Peekers are power plants usually using natural gas that

generally run only when there's a high demand, a peak demand, for electricity.

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