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Publicly defended geoengineering research as a necessary insurance policy against climate failure
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Gates has consistently argued in 'How to Avoid a Climate Disaster' and public interviews that solar geoengineering research is a necessary field of study even though he has serious reservations about actual deployment. He stated that if the world fails to cut emissions fast enough, some form of deliberate climate intervention may become unavoidable, and that studying the risks and governance challenges in advance is better than being caught without any knowledge base in a climate emergency. His position places him among a small minority of prominent technology figures willing to publicly defend geoengineering research funding.
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2026
Gates-Backed Commonwealth Fusion Installs Its First Magnet, Racing Toward 2026 'First Plasma'
Commonwealth Fusion Systems — backed by Bill Gates's Breakthrough Energy — hit a major hardware milestone heading into 2026, installing the first of 18 powerful high-temperature superconducting magnets in its SPARC tokamak near Boston. CFS is racing to achieve 'first plasma' in 2026 and net energy gain in 2027, aiming to prove that commercial fusion power is possible. It is among several fusion ventures Gates has funded in his long search for an 'energy miracle' to fight climate change.
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TerraPower Begins Building America's First Utility-Scale Advanced Reactor in Wyoming
On April 23, 2026, Bill Gates's nuclear company TerraPower formally began nuclear construction of its first Natrium reactor in Kemmerer, Wyoming — billed as the first utility-scale advanced nuclear power plant built in the United States. The milestone followed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's approval of the construction permit, and came after earlier work on non-nuclear facilities and a multi-year delay caused by the loss of Russian fuel supplies. The 345-megawatt sodium-cooled reactor, with molten-salt energy storage, is central to Gates's bet that next-generation nuclear can deliver clean, around-the-clock power.
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