>This can’t be a true story.
From Slaynews:
"Gates’s organization, Breakthrough Energy, has plowed $6.6 million into the project led by Kodama Systems."
They have a website:
https://kodama.ai/faqs
"Many Western US forests today are overgrown with large stretches of homogeneous, fire-intolerant species."
Yup, they plan to cull the herd.