Nathan Myhrvold says he has a fix for Climate Change

 The Freakonomics Team has a (relatively new podcast) starring the economist on the team: Steven Leavitt.

The title is "People I (Mostly) Admire"  and a recent one is a conversation with Nathan Mhyrvold.

Besides his career with Microsoft, Mhyrvold also has a Ph.D. in physics and is a partner is a recent company reimagining nuclear power, Terrapower.

Mhyrvold claims during the discussion that the Terrapower reactors could all by themselves displace all carbon generation in the entire world economy.

Unfortunately this isn't all that's required, but would be an excellent first step! You still have to remove the existing excess carbon in the atmosphere, now over 400 ppm ...

Did you enjoy the 2020 election? Here's another way it could work!

I guess some election nerds really like the "swing state drama" of the late counts in Pennsylvania and Georgia ... but Biden has wound up 5 million + in the popular vote, so ... why?

And then there was the entertaining aftermath:

Couldn't we skip all this hoohah and just use the popular vote?

Maybe:

 

 

I was surprised to see that my state, Washington, has already approved this act ... as have quite a few others totaling 196 electoral votes. This leaves only 74 electoral votes before the agreement goes into effect, rendering the Electoral College a thing of the past.

I can't wait!