Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has
started looking at energy innovation through politics. Gates, who has
started speaking more frequently on the importance of developing
the next generation of energy technology from a technologist and an
investor’s perspective, co-wrote
a column in the Washington Post on Friday that calls for the U.S.
government to invest significantly more money into energy innovation.
Specifically Gates used the column (co-written with former CEO and Chairman of DuPont’s Chad Holliday) to announce a new group that he’s joined called the American Energy Innovation Council, which is a group of business leaders that support energy innovation. The group will announce specific recommendations to enhance energy innovation in the coming months, according to the column, but for now Gates and Holliday gave these three reasons why developing energy technology is different than creating electronics innovation, and why energy technology needs much more federal funding. (We put Gates on our list of 25 Who Ditched Information Technology for Greentech).
To read the full, original article click on this link: Bill Gates: 3 Reasons Why the Feds Need to Fund Energy Innovation
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