First some bad news. The UK Scotch industry has estimated the inane, trumpian tariffs are costing the industry over $100,000,000 this year. That is liable to knock at least several smaller distilleries out of business. Given the need to age the initial raw product for years, 1-3 for gut of rot, 4-8 for something smooth and tasty and up to 18 yrs of age for a truly fine single malt, this kind of disruption will impact the industry for a decade. Even if they stay in business, the idea of malting the grain, purifying and distilling it, then aging it in large oak barrels is much harder if your largest, or second largest consumer just taxed the fuck out of your product.
In simple terms, Adderall, addles all:
"Donald Trump abused Adderall on the set & it made him crazy. He even snorted Adderall. Mark Burnett knew it. It's scary," he wrote in a tweet, accusing The Apprentice creator of knowing that the president took the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder drug.
Arnold's tweet came in response to allegations from stand-up comedian Noel Casler, who claimed he worked on The Celebrity Apprentice for six years. During a set earlier this month, Casler said that Trump snorted crushed-up Adderall and called the commander-in-chief a "speed freak." He also alleged that the president would also invite teen beauty pageant participants up to his room.
www.newsweek.com/…
I guess if you don’t drink scotch, and can snort Adderall powder at leisure, you don’t care about those who care. That is, care whether it is neat, one cube, or more. Not to mention the soaring costs of a single malt.
Now, the good news. Car exhaust, coal powered plant fumes, even concrete manufacturers and pourers can be our saviors:
A team of researchers from Canada and the U.S. has developed a catalyst that quickly and efficiently converts carbon dioxide into simple chemicals. In this way, they transform the most important greenhouse gas into useful products for industry.
"The technology of water electrolysers is well known: they transform water and electricity into hydrogen and oxygen, but in our case, we add CO2 to the cocktail and, instead of producing hydrogen, we can generate various hydrocarbons, such as ethylene, which is the most widely used organic compound worldwide," researcher F. Pelayo García de Arquer, of the University of Toronto (Canada), has told SINC.
"Thus," he explains, "we can obtain raw materials for the manufacture of products such as construction materials, textiles, paints, electronic device components, diapers... or even spirits."
The key to the new device is a polymer coating that facilitates the transport of CO2 through the surface of the metal or electrode of the catalyst. Carbon dioxide, generally speaking, has difficulty penetrating aqueous solutions and reaching the entire surface of this material; so when the flow of electrons (electric current) is increased to carry out the reaction, there is not enough CO2 to be transformed.
www.eurekalert.org/...
Dear Impeached President Trump: Catalyze this! (insert appropriate mental image here)
Now, to insure that their product sniffs and tastes like a Macallan’s or even a decent 8 year old, that might take some additional work, but the possibilities are considerable.
( I do NOT support creating more CO2, I think we have enough on our hands to work with.)