Ted Talks Free Essay

Energy is the strength and vitality required for sustained physical or mental activity. Bill Gates refers to Energy in his Ted Talks as a means of sustaining life. The energy Bill Gates eludes too has a direct impact on sustaining continues economic upward mobility. CO2 or the negative results of CO2 is the energy in which he is addressing in his TED Talk. He emphasizes that the amount of CO2 emissions has an impact on the earth’s climate. Moreover that the earth’s climate is dependent on many of the world’s impoverished source of revenue. That is to say that the impoverished rely on the climate for a source of water in the form of rain, growing of crops through sunlight and rainwater, thereby, that the emissions of CO2 leads to unrest and

When Bill Gates mentioned TerraPower in his speech at the exclusive tech conference TED, it was the first time that many had heard of the nuclear project. TerraPower is a nuclear spinoff project from incubator Intellectual Ventures. TerraPower uses a “traveling wave reactor design,” which is technology that has been researched since the 1990’s, however Gates alludes to a technology as the first company to “develop a practical design,” for travelling wave nuclear reactors. Unlike the current reactor design that uses only enriched uranium for fuel, TerraPower’s reactor largely uses waste byproduct of that enrichment process, or waste uranium. TerraPower uses a small amount of enriched uranium at the beginning of the process but then the nuclear reactor runs on the waste product and can make and consume its own fuel. The benefits are that the reactor doesn’t have to be refueled or have its waste removed until the end of life of the reactor, theoretically a couple hundred years. Using waste uranium reduces the amount of waste in the overall nuclear life cycle, and extends the available supply of the world’s uranium for nuclear by many times. Thus, the innovation of TerraPower will significantly reduce not only global CO2 emersions but reduce uranium waste. As a result of a reduction in negative CO2 emersions the climate will sustain a steady equilibrium resulting