body could ever work on. And he's made some progress, but it's a big problem. He did develop a toilet that met those specifications. They did develop, they built a waste processing plant that doesn't require electricity or running water. Amazing. And they've actually installed it in one city in Africa and apparently it works.

So what it does is it creates its own electricity from the waste that's put into it. It uses that electricity to process it. And the only output is drinkable clean water. Amazing. But then the other thing he's working on, Bill Gates, is eradicating polio, which turned out to be a much harder problem for a variety of reasons. But he's, you know, putting billions into it. He's dead set on getting rid of polio. It just is way more work than it looked like and he's gonna put in the work.

But that's not what I'm talking about. Those two efforts are amazing. And if that's all he ever did, you know, he's just a treasure to the world, Bill Gates is. If all he did was eradicate polio, if all he did was bring clean water to these places in Africa that otherwise wouldn't because of the waste, those are gigantic. But there's something bigger. He's doing something much bigger. And I didn't understand the Netflix special until I put all the pieces together.

And it looks like this: Bill Gates also has been working on developing, through his company TerraPower, a generation four nuclear plant that would fix all of the problems of traditional nuclear power. Those problems are it could melt down. So they made a design that if it loses power it just turns off. It can't melt down by its design. It doesn't have the ability to melt down. Secondly, it uses for fuel spent waste from other nuclear reactors and it could use it for hundreds of years, just the stuff that's already waste. So it reduces nuclear waste. It doesn't have the risk of meltdown by design. And third, it's economical. That's the trifecta.

Now you say to yourself, great, let's start building them. Remember this is completely designed. So it's been designed on supercomputers and stuff. They have to actually build it, but it's completely designed. There's no stuff left to design. So Bill Gates was planning to build the first one in China because China is very pro-nuclear. They're building a lot of their own. And he got approval to do it in China. And then trade war. Then President Trump declared a trade war, which, you know, and that nuclear project got killed because it just isn't possible to do it in China right now.

It's the most important thing in the world. If you believe in climate change, if you don't believe in climate change as being a problem, it's still the most important thing in the world. Here's why: if you could bring down the cost of electricity and provide it to all the people who don't have it, especially the poor, then what you do for poor people and for the economy in general is huge. And what it does for reducing pollution, because you could get rid of your coal plants and the ones that are really killing people, is gigantic. We're talking about saving millions of lives.

You know, if there's no climate change, because if you get rid of the polluting sources, I think there were a hundred thousand people a year or something killed by coal if you just sort of generally calculate how much extra pollution it is and how many extra people died. There are just millions of people dying from pollution and more millions of people dying that didn't need to from poverty. And having low-cost energy would go a long, long way toward reducing poverty.

So here's our situation. And you're probably starting to put some... you're starting to connect the dots a little bit, but let me finish the picture. So Bill Gates does a special that's unusually personal and completely out of character. Why? Okay, so connect the puzzle. Why does he do this special? And then you find out that his plan to save the world, yeah I'm exaggerating but maybe not much, by having clean, safe, economical nuclear power has been thwarted by politics.

What is the one thing that Bill Gates is really good at? It's not politics. That's not his strength. What he did is what he's good at. He put a ton of money into a risky thing that was entrepreneurial. It required innovation and technology. And damn it, he made it work. He actually made it work. Bill Gates invented clean, economical, safe nuclear power. And he can't get a test site running.

Now just to be clear, we don't know that if he built it it would work just the way it was designed. It might take an iteration or two to get it right. But they're pretty confident they got it right or close enough that a few tweaks will get you there.

So now do you understand why Bill Gates allowed a very personal Netflix special about him? He used this to solve the politics. So here's what happened. He puts out this special and he simply makes it entertaining and he puts a lot of personal stuff in. And so we'll watch. So then I turn it on and I watch and I say, are you freaking kidding me? That the only thing stopping us from having economical safe nuclear power is that he can't get through the licensing process in this country?

And then I said to myself, well how could I help? And so I sent a message to Mark Schneider, our resident nuclear expert slash advocate. And I said, do you know anybody at TerraPower I could talk to? Maybe I could help. Because if all we need to do is convince people to do something differently, well I'm good at that. Maybe I could help.

And so Mark contacted somebody on LinkedIn who was an executive at TerraPower with the intention of asking him to connect with me. Now I haven't made that connection. I don't know if I will. But look at all that. All the dots lined up. Bill Gates solved the engineering and the economics of safe nuclear power and he can't get the licensing in his own country. He had to go to China to even get approval.

Now do we have a president who could solve that problem? Yup. Now you say to yourself, whoa Scott, Scott, Scott, nobody can solve that problem. Even a president couldn't solve that problem because the problem is just problem with red tape and the states and it's not really a federal problem anyway. It's about the states and it's the bureaucracy and there are reasons and variables and even the president couldn't solve it. It's that hard to solve.

Well we don't have an ordinary president. We are blessed or cursed, depending on your point of view, with the most unique president in the history of presidents. And there's one thing that this president can do that other presidents can't do. What he can do is the stuff you can't do. Who was it who could move our embassy to Jerusalem? Nobody. And then Trump did it. Who could get elected president with no experience in politics? Nobody. Well but then Trump did it. Who could remove our troops from Syria? Nobody. It's impossible. Well Trump just did it. Who could start a major trade war with China and convince this country that maybe we should stop doing trade with them at all? Nobody. Except Trump just did it.

How many times do you have to see something they can't be done and then watch Trump do it right in front of you? He's the president who can do it.

So here's what it comes down to. You and I, because you're part of my system right now, you and I are gonna try to find somebody at TerraPower to talk to. Maybe you find somebody, maybe I find somebody. And we're gonna find out if we understand the problem right. Because that's the first thing, you know. I want to understand if the real problem is that there's an entity or groups that are dragging their feet. If we can find a person whose job it is to make this happen and they're not getting it done, that person probably needs some help. Maybe they need a bigger staff. Maybe they need more freedom from mistakes. Maybe they need somebody to, you know, do some kind of an executive order or to clear out some paperwork.

We're gonna find the person. And it might be just one person, maybe a few, but maybe just one. We're gonna find the people or person who is stopping Bill Gates from solving the biggest problem in the world if you think it's climate change or even if you don't. We all just still need clean power.

So Bill Gates found a way to weaponize the topic just right. Because it's hard to imagine how hard it is to change people's minds about nuclear power. Imagine how hard it would be to break that red tape. The way to do it is to focus an immense amount of energy at exactly the right point like a laser. You know, you've got a lot of energy but it's no good unless it's focused. And what Bill Gates did was he just, by doing the Netflix thing, I'm pretty sure that his real intention was not self-aggrandizement. In other words, I don't believe that Gates did it so that we would have a better impression of Bill Gates. Now it did have that effect. I mean you watch that special and you come away thinking he might be the greatest person who ever lived. He might be the smartest. You actually will think that when you walk away. You think, I don't know, he might be the greatest human of all time. I actually went away from the special thinking that's like, well you know it's kind of hard to rank all humans but he might be the best of us. He might be.

And he just created a situation where if we helped in the right way we can solve his last remaining problem, which is he can't get it approved in the United States. I think we can do that for him. He set it up. I mean he set it up. All we have to do is execute. So let's find a TerraPower executive who will talk to us, confirm exactly where the problem is, and then we'll do what we can to put the energy from the government. If President Trump could be helpful, I know that he would at least listen to the story.

Now here's the fast way to do it: put Bill Gates and Trump in a room together with nobody else. Just, you know, there could be other people but you know the point is those two people have room to talk about nuclear power. Don't you think that Bill Gates sitting in a room with President Trump could get a nuclear plant approved? I mean maybe they have to put it in someplace remote, you know, maybe it's not the ideal location or something. But don't you think they could get that done? I think they could.

So that's positive.

If those of you who are following me on Twitter might know that I keep triggering this cognitive dissonance trap and then watching people fall into it. And the trap goes like this. Piers Morgan was saying something on Twitter that I responded to about transgender athletes. And I keep saying this. I say wouldn't it be better if instead of having leagues for women and leagues for men and then the transgenders are, you know, are something we have to fight over, wouldn't it be better to just say anybody can play at whatever level their abilities allow?

So that would mean that the only people who play in the NBA are very tall best-of-the-best men. And all the rest of the men in the world don't get to play in the NBA. So a hundred percent of women would not play in the NBA under that model. And 99.999 percent of men would also not play in the NBA. Now there would be no women's league under this model. It would just be leagues. And if you were lower down in the leagues, and some of them might have men and women and transgender athletes, etc., and it would be fine because whatever league they're playing in would be competitive with the people on that team.

Now what is the biggest complaint that people say when I say what I just said, which is get rid of men's sports and get rid of women's sports and just have as many leagues as you need so everybody can find a slot where they work? What's the biggest complaint? People say, Scott you idiot. I got called an idiot about 20 times this morning alone. You idiot, you idiot, Scott. Well I have to go full day like this. This is what they say to me when I say don't have men's and women's teams, just have, you know, as many leagues as you need so everybody can find one that they fit into.

They say to me, don't you know, Scott, that men are biologically larger than women? Scott, if they're playing on the same team the men will just hurt them and it won't be fair. To which I say that has nothing to do with my idea. Because in my idea you don't join the team except the one that you won't get hurt and the people are roughly as good as you are. They might be men, might be women, could be anything. They