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Highlights from How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- It takes decades to change an energy source. Bill Gates have read a few good books about this topic, like Energy Myths and Realities.
- In the past, “energy” meant muscles, animals, and plants. Until the 1890s, there were hardly any fossil fuels. Sadly, there are still places where this transition hasn’t happened — like Sub-Saharan Africa.
- The spread of natural gas and oil took a long time, but nuclear energy reached 10% much faster — in just 27 years.
- We shifted from using wood to coal, and then from coal to natural gas. These were economic decisions.