Alcohol in China
This book is about two alcoholic drinks from China that will be unfamiliar to many of us in Europe: baijiu and huangjiu. Baijiu has been around for over two millennia; it is a clear spirit, most usually made by fermenting sorghum – a few varieties may use rice or grains like wheat or barley – with distillation yielding a product with a high alcohol content, between around 35 to 60% ethanol.
A practical plan for a carbon free world
The United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (better known as COP26) held in Glasgow in November 2021, and attended by nearly 200 countries, resolved to keep global warming to 1.5°C by 2050. Gates’ action plan to enable all countries to reach zero greenhouse emissions in a timely fashion asserts that the achievement of this goal is not practicable before 2050 and moving the target date forward to 2030 is unrealistic for several reasons.