there s a variety of technologies that might provide that solution. we need to fund thousands of entrepreneurs to drive those costs down. because otherwise, middle-income countries aren t going to pay some huge premium for their energy. and do you feel like we are at the cusp of an energy revolution? well, i m hopeful. i keep encouraging governments to raise their energy r&d budgets. and it s disappointing, given the importance of energy for the poorest in the world and this imperative that we get zero co2 emission, that the r&d budgets haven t gone up more. i m funding some new work in nuclear. there s a lot being funded in storage. i m involved in some of those. the solar space has gotten lots and lots of funding. so there s good things happening, but i think we should be trying to accelerate that because rather than subsidize this stuff when it s not economic, funding the r&d to get
i keep encouraging governments to raise their energy r&d budgets. and it s disappointing, given the importance of energy for the poorest in the world and this imperative that we get zero co2 emission, that the r&d budgets haven t gone up more. i m funding some new work in nuclear. there s a lot being funded in storage. i m involved in some of those. the solar space has gotten lots and lots of funding. so there s good things happening, but i think we should be trying to accelerate that because rather than subsidize this stuff when it s not economic funding the r&d to get it be economic that is the only real solution. bill gates, always a pleasure. next on gps, from seattle, how great would it be if u.s. election campaigns were shorter, had no negative tv ads, and didn t require a billion dollars to win?
waxman who are quite frequent critics of the companies, they re waking up to somebody that needs them. we had a dry run of the swine flu. how did we do? what did we learn? what s got to change? they broke out the bush administration plan and for the mo part they did a good job and they used the right type of rhetoric. there were two problems really. one was in terms of the overpromising of vaccine and underdelivering. and then the second was in terms of the distribution of getting it to people where it needed to go. they addressed this issue of the development in the report. the rhetoric is something that, you know, you need to be careful of. you can t overpromise and then the distribution is something that i thought was a little underdiscussed in the report. it s an important issue. so you have pharmaceuticals who has to be able to act quickly. all they ve heard is how bad they are and how price controls have to be implemented. how can price controls put us all in danger? well