In cooperation with Intellectual Ventures, apparently Gates' patents on energy storage are supposed to be so broad they're like patenting nature itself.
There's even one against health care workers and portable power.
Effectively these make it more costly or impossible for those having underdeveloped energy infrastructure to benefit from advances made which would be helpful otherwise, regardless of who makes the advances.
There's even one against health care workers and portable power.
Effectively these make it more costly or impossible for those having underdeveloped energy infrastructure to benefit from advances made which would be helpful otherwise, regardless of who makes the advances.