Bill Gates: We need global 'energy miracles' @ TED conf.

Is climate change realy going to be addressed on a effective scale. Attention like this helps. P.A. 

Bill Gates suggested researchers spend the next 40 years perfecting and implementing clean-energy technologies.STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Bill Gates called on the world's tech community to find a way to harness spent nuclear fuel
• Gates: finding a cheap and clean energy source is more important than creating new vaccines
• He urged researchers to spend the next 20 years developing clean-energy technologies
• Microsoft founder spoke Friday at the TED Conference in Long Beach, California

Long Beach, California (CNN) -- Microsoft Corp. founder and philanthropist Bill Gates on Friday called on the world's tech community to find a way to turn spent nuclear fuel into cheap, clean
energy.

"What we're going to have to do at a global scale is create a new system," Gates said in a speech at the TED Conference in Long Beach, California. "So we need energy miracles."

Gates called climate change the world's most vexing problem, and added that finding a cheap and clean energy source is more important than creating
new vaccines and improving farming techniques, causes into which he has
invested billion of dollars.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation last month pledged $10 billion to help deploy and develop vaccines for children in the developing world.

The world must eliminate all of its carbon emissions and cut energy costs in half in order to prevent a climate catastrophe, which will hit the world's poor
hardest, he said.

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