When Bill Gates is interested in something new, his organizing, capacious intelligence learns everything about it, and he imagines ways it could be better. Now the cofounder of Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is interested in energy. At his offices in Kirkland, WA, he spoke to Jason Pontin, Technology Review's editor in chief. Gates called for energy "miracles" and a more rational energy policy, and he explained how being a software "fanatic" prepared him to invest in new ideas.
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