Nathan Myhrvold

...energy research, Mundie said. One example is TerraPower, a Seattle-area nuclear power company that has attracted Bill Gates and former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold as investors. TerraPower is designing a...

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...nuclear reactor. The model draws from the work of TerraPower LLC, a project of Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based invention house headed up by former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold. Bill Gates is among the...

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...radical approach. Nathan Myhrvold, the former Microsoft chief technology officer, has been working on a series of "geoengineering" projects in his current role as head of Bellevue-based invention house Intellectual Ventures. One Intellectual...

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...Myhrvold scans each page, points out glitches and sketches how he wants a chart to look. "It's basically like a software project," Dr. Myhrvold said. "It's very much like a review we would do at Microsoft." The project has grown in size...

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...skeptical that the "kooky" plan would work. But Myhrvold, the former Microsoft chief technology officer, told us in a recent interview that critics are overlooking a critical element of the plan. The system wouldn't be deployed immediately...

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Nathan Myhrvold, the former Microsoft executive who now runs an investment fund for innovative technologies, says by e-mail: "iPhones and Blackberries give us new formats -- like Twitter -- which is a type of story telling. Somebody...

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...of Intellectual Ventures, a private think tank. Myhrvold and his staff have the idea to build a giant "garden hose to the sky" that would pump liquefied sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere. Scientists know that increasing SO2 in the air...

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...bloom. And in their new book, Superfreakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner talk approvingly of Nathan Myhrvold, the former chief technology officer of Microsoft, whose company, Intellectual Ventures, is exploring the possibility of...

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...To Block Out the Sun With Liquid Sulfur [Environment] Former Microsoft Tech chief Nathan Myhrvold wants to dim the sun's rays with liquid sulfur pumped from helium-filled balloons. But it's not like he is sitting behind a desk, tapping his...

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