Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 06:53:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Climate Change Endangers Cocoa Production, Bill Gates Comes Up with Solution https://www.greenoptimistic.com/climate-change-cocoa-bill-gates-20111004/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/climate-change-cocoa-bill-gates-20111004/#respond Tue, 04 Oct 2011 06:53:17 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=20631 Simple story: one morning, Bill Gates wanted some chocolate for breakfast. The next thing that happened is that his foundation analyzed the prices of chocolate worldwide, the price of cocoa, someone in Ghana prepared an ultra-special recipe for him and delivered it before Mr. Gates finished eating the caviar, with an F22 fighter jet. After […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/climate-change-cocoa-bill-gates-20111004/feed/ 0 20631 Bill Gates Funds Project That Produces Biodiesel and Methane From Human Sludge in Ghana https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bill-gates-ghana-sludge-20110616/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bill-gates-ghana-sludge-20110616/#respond Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:56:17 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=19130 Q: What do human poop, fuel cells, clean energy and Bill Gates have in common? A: a $1.5 million grant to Columbia University professor Kartik Chandran. He is to develop a "Next-Generation Urban Sanitation Facility" in Accra, Ghana along with Waste Enterprisers and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. The project will turn fecal sludge into biodiesel and methane. Gross, isn't it?

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