t hauling containers out of Long Beach to other smaller ports that aren't backed up. Now this is not a comprehensive list. So as I said, think in terms of all the different ways that you can get rid of the empties. Don't get obsessed by these specific suggestions. But he does make the case that you could probably do it and you could probably do it fast if you had the will and the leadership.

I don't think it's a money problem. I don't think it's a knowing-what-to-do problem anymore. I think it's just a willpower, leadership, brute force kind of situation. So we could probably power through it.

And then he's got some other—he said he'd be happy to lead this effort for the federal state government. Well, there you go. You even have somebody who understands it and is already a CEO just volunteered to lead the effort. And you probably need somebody who has this level of understanding about the whole system to really do anything productive because any change to one part of the system is going to ripple through the rest of the system. So you need somebody who knows what kind of changes aren't going to break the system somewhere else.

So where's Pete Buttigieg, and why can't he make Ryan Peterson the port czar just until we get this over with? I don't know.

So I'm going to put this in the category of citizens doing what the government couldn't do. You remember the story I told earlier today about the dads just saying, "Okay, the school is failing. The government is failing. How about you and I put on these dad shirts and go fix the school?" And so they did because the government couldn't fix it. So the dads went and fixed it and succeeded.

So the government was so far pretty close to worthless on this whole supply chain issue. So a citizen says, "Well, maybe I'll solve it." I'm saying the same thing. Like literally right now what I'm doing is making sure that enough people have heard this idea. Why? Because the government isn't doing it. Like I am literally doing the government's job right now for free, and I'm happy to do it because I'm a patriot and the country has a crisis. Of course I want to help. So does Ryan Peterson. So does somebody with 500 acres somewhere. So does anybody who's got a truck and can put it empty on it.

But just for fun I'm going to take it to a new level, right? What follows is my whiteboard presentation of what to do with all the empties. Don't take this too seriously. All right, I'm going to present this in the spirit of just stretching your mind a little bit. All right, I'm not—I wouldn't say this is a practical idea, but it's fun.

It goes like this. Let's say you got a port. Here's your port. You want to get rid of all these containers. Now let's say that not too far away there's a mountain. I'm going to solve all the world's problems at once. You ready? Just all at once. You're going to take these containers and line them up on the mountain butt to butt until you have the equivalent of a tunnel. A tunnel. Now you'd have to open up the—once you stuck them together you'd have to weld an opening between them—but then imagine you do that. So you open them up and you've got this big-ass tunnel that goes up the hill or the mountain.

Have you ever heard of a heat chimney? Have you ever heard of that concept? A heat chimney is when the natural rising of warm air is put through a chimney. So basically if you built this all by itself it would start sucking in warm air because warm air rises, and it would suck it into this pole and it would exhale it in there. And if it was a big enough entity it would be pretty fast.

Now wait for it. Wait for it. Why would you do this? Because you're going to build a CO2 capture facility on the top. CO2 capture. All right, we know that we have technology—I don't think you can even see this. Can you? Let me fix that a little bit.

All right, so if you were to build a CO2 capture device that pulls air, that pulls the CO2 out of the air, what is the biggest part of the expense? The biggest part of the expense—I think you'd have to fact-check me on this—is energy. So the biggest part of the expense is these big fans that move the wind. So you have to move the air. You force it through the filters to get the CO2 out.

But what if you didn't need the fans? What if nature was your fan? What if the warm air was warm enough at the bottom that by the time it got to the top it was just like a hurricane? I'm not sure if the physics work to get enough airflow, but could you get enough airflow to build a cheap CO2 capture on the top of a hill? Boom. Solving climate change and the shipping container problem at the same time.

Now is this a practical plan? No. And it wouldn't happen fast. But I just like to put two ideas together now and then because it's good for your creativity. Sometimes it's useful to hear what's called the bad version of the idea. I've talked about this before. It's a Hollywood trick. If you don't have a good idea for a script—you know, what does the character do now?—if you don't have a good idea, throw out the bad one because the bad one will make somebody say, "Well, that won't work," but it does remind me of something that will.

So he says, "Do you realize we still need those empty containers?" We'll make more. We'll make more. Because I'm not talking about enough containers that would change the global container situation, and I'm not talking about really using containers for this because there's got to be an easier way to make a