Nuclear energy is a baseload – meaning it’s power that you can run any time you want, day or night – and carbon-free. Nathan Myhrvold Read Quote
If you had a really good – battery, it wouldn’t matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale. Nathan Myhrvold Read Quote
The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials science and chemistry that come in trying to make existing batteries better. Nathan Myhrvold Read Quote
I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can’t stick to don’t do you any good. Some people say, ‘Just eat half of what’s on your plate,’ but I can’t do that! Nathan Myhrvold Read Quote
Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional decanter is a rather pathetic tool to accomplish it. A few years ago, I found I could get much better results by using an ordinary kitchen blender. Nathan Myhrvold Read Quote
Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions. Nathan Myhrvold Read Quote
The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It’s like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up. Nathan Myhrvold Read Quote
For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want. Nathan Myhrvold Read Quote
There’s no way I’m going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It’s a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique. Nathan Myhrvold Read Quote
The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They’re both about $20. They help you cook so much more accurately that they’re both enormously valuable. Nathan Myhrvold Read Quote
