Nathan Myhrvold’s opens the gates to ‘Invention Capital’

Friday, March 26, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Environment, Technology | Tags: technology, innovators, Bill Gates, economist, eco, nuclear, travelling-wave reactor, Nathan Myhrvold, TerraPower

The Economist online runs a profile of formidable innovators involved in a phenomenal project.

We couldn’t leave Bill Gates out of the picture this month, he’s an investor in his friend, Nathan Myhrvold’s new method of generating power from uranium. Myhrvold’s travelling-wave reactor, is being taken up by TerraPower, a firm in which Bill Gates is investing.

One of the features of the technology he finds most attractive is the difficulty of making nuclear bombs from its byproducts. The reactor’s other benefits include never having to be refuelled despite a potential lifespan of several hundred years. Nathan Myhrvold’s also proposes a market in ‘invention capital’