Grading Bill Gates Pass/Fail & A thru F

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Grading Bill Gates Pass/Fail & A thru F

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Subject: Grading Bill Gates Pass/Fail & A thru F
From: Solutions
Date: Sat, March 8, 2021 11:41 am PDT
To: ReadingLiberally-SaltLake@johnkarls.com
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Dear John,

After reading your “Suggested Discussion Outline” for our Wed May 12 meeting, I am mystified regarding the title of your “Second Short Quiz” which was “Grading Bill Gates Pass/Fail & A thru F.”

In short, how would you grade him?

After all, your policy of never voting except to break ties has only applied to the vote at the beginning of each meeting for our focus book for the following month.

And your policy has never prevented you from voicing your views on substantive matters in the Short Quizzes and Suggested Discussion Outlines.

Though many of us often think that many of your comments during our meetings are intended to “stir the pot”!

So your honest opinion, please, on a grade for Bill Gates.

Your friend,

Solutions


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Subject: Re: Grading Bill Gates Pass/Fail & A thru F
From: ReadingLiberally-SaltLake@johnkarls.com
Date: Sun, March 9, 2021 6:59 am MDT
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Dear Solutions,

Thank you for your e-mail.

And please permit me to answer your question in two parts.


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Re Educating The Public -- Grade = “D” but “Pass”

It would appear that your being “mystified” about my assessment of Bill Gates’ book is due to all of my negative comments in the Short Quizzes and the Suggested Discussion Outline.

(1) Bill Gates seems oblivious to whether MILITARY ACTION would be required to compel countries such as China to lower the standard-of-living of its citizens by adopting carbon-free energy sources that are more expensive than oil/gas and coal.

(2) Of the THREE cost-effective ways of solving Global Warming (aka Climate Change), Bill Gates is ignorant of Proton Technologies’ method of obtaining hydrogen for approximately half the cost of energy-equivalent oil & gas products. [Bill Gates thinks the only way to obtain hydrogen is incredibly-expensive electrolysis of water (2H2O > 2H2 + O2)!!!]

(3) Of the THREE cost-effective ways of solving Global Warming (aka Climate Change), Bill Gates is ignorant of Harvard’s approach of seeding the earth’s atmosphere to turn down the “world’s thermostat.”

(4) Of the THREE cost-effective ways of solving Global Warming (aka Climate Change), Bill Gates is a “johnny come lately” to nuclear and INEXPLICABLY pushes uranium-fission despite the dozen-or-so advantages of thorium-fission such as an inability to explode, its far superior “burn up” rate leaving (in contrast) virtually no nuclear waste, and thorium’s far superior availability & cheapness.

MOST GLARINGLY, Bill Gates fails to offer any reasons for combatting Global Warming (aka Climate Change).

[The Suggested Discussion Outline posits (A) sea-level rises can be more cost-effectively handled with Dutch-style dykes, (B) the earth’s “Sixth Extinction” in the last 500 million years in which 50% of the world’s species are becoming extinct and this extinction is caused by human activity is NOT lamentable vis-à-vis, for example, hindering the development of pandemic-solving vaccines (according, at our 1/13/2016 meeting 5 years ago, to both the U/Utah’s Radiology Research Prof and also the retired Air Force Doctor who, inter alia, headed the Medical Staff at DoD’s Regional Medical Center at Landstuhl Germany to which all medical evacuees from the Middle East have been taken since Gulf War I), but (C) GLOBAL WARMING WILL SOON RENDER VAST AREAS OF THE WORLD UNINHABITABLE DESERTS -- AND ARE THE U.S. AND OTHER NATIONS PREPARED TO VIOLATE THE JEWISH/CHRISTIAN COMMANDMENT TO “LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF” WITH CLOSED BORDERS AT WHICH MILLIONS OF HUMAN BEINGS WILL STARVE TO DEATH???]


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Re Obtaining “Permission” From The Media To Push Nuclear -- Grade = “A-Plus” and MEDAL-WORTHY

It is presumed that obtaining “permission” from The Media to push nuclear was Bill Gates’ real goal in writing “How To Avoid A Climate Disaster.”

And at this, Bill Gates has succeeded brilliantly!!!

After all, “actions speak louder than words” and Bill Gates has been an unabashed proponent of solving Global Warming with nuclear energy!!!

Indeed, in addition to investing zillions of dollars in developing small-module nuclear reactors, he was the “moving force” behind the 1/14/2019 enactment of the “Nuclear Energy and Modernization Act” and the 3/27/2019 introduction of the “Nuclear Energy Leadership Act” – both supported by a bipartisan group of Senate leaders including two Presidential candidates – Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO).

And Bill Gates is perceptive enough to know that one of “The Breakthroughs We Need” (to quote the second half of his book’s subtitle) is to CURE THE PUBLIC’S FEAR OF NUCLEAR ENERGY!!!

After all, Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas did an incredible job of “BRAIN WASHING” the public against nuclear power with their 1979 Hollywood blockbuster “China Syndrome”!!!

Bill Gates briefly points out that the only 3 significant nuclear accidents in the world’s 76-year nuclear history (Three-Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima Daichi) were, as we have pointed out in great detail for many years (most recently Q&A B-3-D of this month’s Second Short Quiz), the result of unpardonable human actions.

And Bill Gates does not even mention that all of our submarines and aircraft carriers have been propelled for more than half a century by nuclear energy which is why our aircraft carriers can travel at more than 60 mph (the actual maximum speed is classified) which means that they can “leave in the dust” (a bad metaphor for naval vessels) all of the other types of naval vessels that normally surround a carrier for protection.

BTW, the pristine safety record of our nuclear-propelled submarines and aircraft carriers is one of the reasons for the enviable safety record of America’s civilian nuclear-power plants -- U.S. Navy nuclear personnel take retirement after earning their pensions with 20 years’ service and go to work for our civilian nuclear-power plants.

BTW, it is ironic that Bill Gates focuses the majority of his book on five categories of energy consumption (31% of greenhouse gas emissions coming from “making things,” 27% from the electricity grid, 19% from farms/ranches, 14% from transportation and 7% from HVAC).

Because when the Defense Department developed the nation’s nuclear-propelled submarines and aircraft carriers more than a half century ago, the Defense Department ALSO WORKED ON DEVELOPING INTER-CONTINENTAL NUCLEAR-PROPELLED BOMBERS!!!

[The significance of which is that there is no real danger to military personnel from dealing with nuclear-power plants at close range for 20-year careers – EVEN ON AIRCRAFT.]

The reason why the Defense Department did NOT develop nuclear-propelled aircraft???

The “bean counters” decided it would be cheaper to station along the inter-continental bombing routes “tanker aircraft” for re-fueling.

BTW, if the public would be too “brain washed” to board nuclear-powered aircraft, there was no “China Syndrome” blockbuster on the Hindenburg Dirigible Disaster so presumably the public could be induced to board hydrogen-powered aircraft that obtain their fuel via the Proton Technologies method or that obtain their fuel from using nuclear-powered electrolysis of water.

And we wouldn’t even have to worry about how our aircraft are powered in the future (including current-day carbon-producing AvJet fuel, aka kerosene) with either (A) the Harvard method of turning down the “world thermostat” or (B) our Reading Liberally nuclear-powered “food factories” that should be capable of removing as much of the atmosphere’s carbon (with no limit) as is desirable.

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Sorry to “run off at the mouth” which is my wont.

Suffice it to say that what was needed at this moment in time/history was a nuclear “Trojan Horse” camouflaged by a 360-degree survey-course-style textbook to con The Media into giving nuclear energy respectability in the “full court press” quest for solutions to Global Warming (aka Climate Change).

And, in my opinion, Bill Gates did so BRILLIANTLY.

I would vote for giving him the highest medals any country and/or the United Nations can bestow.

Your friend,

John K.

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