s cool. Did you know that 50% of men by the time they reach 75 have a hernia? So it's basically just a little bulge and part of your body just below your belt line. And so I have one of those. I have an untreated hernia. If you're wondering why it's untreated, allow me to explain a conversation with my surgeon who would have been the surgeon to do the surgery if I had chosen surgery. So I could have. It's just one of the choices. But the surgery doesn't work every time and sometimes it gives you permanent pain for the rest of your life and then it can never be fixed after that. So a 10% chance of permanent pain. So the surgeon is explaining my risks. And you know me well enough to know that I was barely letting him complete a sentence. And he'd start talking. I'd say, okay, but what's the risk of this? Okay, he'd answer that. And then he started talking. I'd say, all right, but if I do this this would be the outcome, the likely outcome. You know, these are the odds. And about halfway through he stops me and he goes, what do you do for a living? And the reason he asked is apparently he has a tough time explaining the odds to normies. But the fact that I was ahead of him in knowing what the risk reward is, he wanted to stop because it's like are you a doctor or something? Or he was trying to figure out why I was understanding the field as quickly as I was. And all I was doing was asking him the risks. So you know, what's the risk if you get the thing? Well, 10% chance you'd be unhappy. What's the risk if you don't get it? Well, there's some chance you'll be rushed to the hospital in the future because it worsens. But probably won't die, right? No, but you might be rushed to the hospital and it might be painful and then they would operate. So waiting until it hurts all the time or it's too painful to keep going, that would be the time you get the surgery. Because if you're 100% unhappy because it just hurts all the time, well then a 90% chance of fixing it, it's a good deal. But if it doesn't hurt all the time you've got a 10% chance of entering a world in which it will hurt all the time. So you put it off. So I put it off and my surgeon was completely happy that I understood the odds enough to make that choice. Now it does hurt. It hurts every day but not all the time, usually if I've just exercised or something. So I have to be careful with it.

But here's the news. There's a new technique for getting rid of it without surgery. Now this one's a stretch but apparently according to Science Mag there's now some research that if they block the estrogen receptor alpha, ESR1, in the connective tissues around that hernia it can heal. So what happens is there's a weakness in the muscle wall that's holding basically holding everything together and so the weakness causes the little bulge. So apparently they can just turn off this receptor and the tissue around it will heal and it will build back the strong wall and you don't have to have any surgery and probably wouldn't even hurt. Now they've already made it work on a mouse which isn't good enough of course but then they've also done it on human tissue. Now not in a human but they've done it on human tissue and it worked. Apparently it works really well, like surprisingly well. So you know they'd have to do a lot of testing before it's real but we might be a few years away from going in for a simple procedure where they stick some needles into you and just inject this stuff and two weeks later your thing is gone.

Maybe there's a new breakthrough in lithium ion batteries in South Korea. I tell you this every day. Yep, every day I tell you South Korea has a new breakthrough in batteries. So you don't need to know the details but here's a cool one. According to The Debrief there's a clean energy breakthrough where they create these tiny copper nanoflowers that can convert CO2 in the air into valuable hydrocarbons with no pollution. Think about that. They figured out how to take the CO2 out of the air without using a lot of energy. I think it might even be passive. It might be just the CO2 that hits the flower. Yeah, I think it is. So they're not even sucking the CO2 out. They're just putting this flower there. Now they're calling it a flower but it's copper wires and stuff. But it's mimicking nature and it mimics the photosynthesis. So it turns carbon dioxide into a fuel source. Specifically what kind of fuel? Into complex molecules such as ethane and ethylene which are key components in fuels and plastic production.

Now the question I ask, if this is real and University of California Berkeley and University of Cambridge say it is, they say it's real, that it's not a theory, they built it so they don't have to wonder if it works, they built it, it works. So what if we all got one? You know what if they just turn it into a desktop thing you can plug in and it just takes CO2 out of the air and turns it into something you could sell or turns it into 3D printer material. I always like that. It could be the end of any problems about CO2. Now may I jump in and say don't take my plant food. Stop taking all my CO2. My plants are going to die. Well before that happens at least we can get rid of the climate hysteria. So when I talk about removing CO2 from the air I'm usually talking about removing the climate hysteria from the air. I'm not really talking about CO2. But if we had a way to get rid of it at scale we would know pretty quickly if it made any difference. And I think we could. I think we'd be smart enough to stop before all our plants died from not having enough CO2. I'd like to think we would. But it would be dangerous if you could take the CO2 out of the air and turn it into commercial products because then people are g