got good at grabbing their photos, it turns out we're now good at identifying cartel members. So when it says that the number of suspected terrorists is up 30-fold, it means we got really really good at spotting cartel members crossing the border. Trying to do it legally, but obviously we're spotting them. So what looks like bad news is actually extraordinary. Extraordinary that they had a 30-fold improvement in spotting cartel members coming across the border. How often do you get a 30-fold improvement in anything? That's pretty impressive.

So yeah, that's just sort of all good news. I would like to have fewer cartel members crossing my border. That'd be good too. But the fact that we can now spot them seems like a good idea.

Well, apparently there's going to be some protests against the Mexican president for not doing enough to go after the cartels. And the Mexican president, what do you think she did when the security risk got too high? That's right. She's building a wall around wherever the president lives. I don't know what it is in Mexico, but whatever their version of the presidential palace or whatever it is, they're building a big steel wall all around it. Build the wall. Build the wall.

And it's interesting that the public so clearly blames her as being basically a tool of the cartel. I'm pretty sure that Trump thinks of her the same way, but she's the only president they have. So he has to deal with her in the real world in some kind of real world productive way. So maybe he just has to pretend he knows less about the cartel connections than he does. But it could suggest that there's going to be a military move against the cartels by the US because you might expect that the president of Mexico would be very vulnerable to some kind of cartel attack if she didn't stop the US from attacking Mexico. So things could get a little wet and a little dark as soon as that fence is done. There's some specific protests coming up, but I'll bet they keep the fence up after that's over.

According to Interesting Engineering, there's some new technology that promises to turn ethanol plants that would be a place that turns things into ethanol but there's some CO2 waste that comes out of that and they could turn it into jet fuel for 80% less than the current cost of just jet fuel.

Now I'm not going to try to tell you that this is likely to happen, this specific technology, but all the times I've read to you, almost every day, there's always some breakthrough in either producing energy or converting CO2 into energy or reducing cost by 80% like in this case, I feel like the future is something like everything will cost 80% less and then 90% less. Like if you were going to look at the near-term and midterm, everything will look more expensive. But if you were to look at the long term, it looks like the cost of everything is just going to plummet because we'll keep finding these little ways to do stuff like this. It's like, oh, we'll just turn this into something. It'll reduce the cost by 80%. So jet fuel is one of the big polluters in the world.

All right, let me just finish up here. If you haven't seen the video yet of a giant bridge in China collapsing, it's sort of a newish bridge, but it was one of those big impressive ones, and they had some mudslide that just took out the whole bridge. Nobody died. The police did a good job, cleared it out in anticipation of the problem, and sure enough, there's video of a mudslide taking out the whole bridge.

So the reason I bring that up is I've been thinking lately that China is the only one who can make anything anymore, but it used to be that we thought that China didn't manufacture as well as