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Beer without alcohol:

Maltose-negative yeasts could unlock new flavors and faster brewing for nonalcoholic beers

Benjamin Franklin would not approve, not Pyramid Pharoahs.

 

"determine the height of a building"

A) Test was with an alarm clock

B) Give alarm clock and other gifts as needed to architect for building plans.

 

The biggest chunk of protected ocean no longer will be. The editorial:

Trump signs order ending years of protections in Pacific monument

The (possibly volatile) govt website:

Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

 

Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument is mostly 'for' fishing. May end up having some sea floor minerals for scraping. As far as punching petroleum holes, this is mid ocean, not coastal.

Did I mention the fish? also coral reefs. No spilla da petroleum there.

 

Asian suppliers of photovoltaic panels to US are facing tariffs. Cambodia more than 3500% according to Gizmodo, which is a remarkable number. So I wondered about domestic manufacturers possibly able to fill the gap. Here is a list:

Top 5 American Solar Panel Manufacturers In 2025.

Some may be getting 'bits' from overseas, and also facing new tariffs on those. Some may be impurely American though I don't know how that will get treated. Link talks a lot about manufacturing stimuli legislated previously, which may or may not have persisted.

 

I concede that barometers appear to be more invoked for this Niels Bohr problem than clocks. However, clocks have faces (except when they don't) marked off in equal angles which leads to making a clinometer. As do many barometers. Maybe I should stop digging

But aneroid barometers with 0.5 millibar precision are expensive. Mercury barometers can resolve 0.0001 millibar, but absurdly expensive ... and all that mercury to deal with. Modern chips to the rescue? 0.1 millibar precision at very low cost.

A 100-meter building will have 1.0 millibar less air pressure at top than bottom. All but the finest barometers (used in a traditional way) are simply not precise enough for this.

Might as well go with a clock. Or a bowling ball.

 

Solar roof manufactures in Buffalo NY. Components may not be domestically sourced. That does not seem to be disclosed.

 

Nitrate ions are important for plant nitrogen metabolism, AFAICT having oxygen atoms attached cause plants few or no problems. N in plant molecules is always in a reduced form (similar to ammonium).

Explosives are different. For good booms one needs oxygen atoms 'right there'. No time to wait for them to wander in from outside. So nitrate containing oxygen is good to attach to some organic. For example, toluene.

Read other aspects of Alfred Nobel's work here:

How Alfred Nobel's Invention of Dynamite Reshaped the World

 

Top U.S. Scientists Speak Out against ‘Climate of Fear’ Wrecking U.S. Research:

Top U.S. Researchers Warn against ‘Climate of Fear’ Threatening Science | Scientific American

Was this in general media circa March 31? I did not see it then.

 

NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan, appointed by Trump in first term, has resigned. His statement:

Statement by Director Sethuraman Panchanathan on his departure | NSF - National Science Foundation

 

I bought a copy of Mao's Red Book with English translations in my first visit to The Great Wall. Seller asked a high price but I paid realistically less. My copy has pages folded where 'science' is a revered thing.

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Chairman Mao in his day was Something, but not Everything. Deng Xiaopeng was the opening-up guy. Current leader Xi Jinping might happily only snuff rivals, but US has again promoted Trump the weird as tariff thing doer in chief. So China along with most other countries must respond rationally to irrationality.

Has the Human Enterprise been slowed? You tell us please.