Post #3880920

@libroraptor@mastodon.nz 1. When Penicillin was new (a while after nitrogen fixation by heat and pressure) it was scarce and was recovered from patients' urine. To aid this, soldiers were ordered _not_ to drink beer while taking it. This has survived into legend as a poorly-based general prohibition. Point: unless it is something beer contains or produces, it is easier to get it back from a smaller volume of p. 2. You might point him at the famine expected then averted by synthetic N fixation, then ...