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I think the consensus is that the industrial revolution would have been impossible without fossil fuels.
by echlebek 9y ago
I think the consensus is that the industrial revolution would have been impossible without fossil fuels.
- jandrese 9y agoIt would have been impossible to power steam engines with wood instead of coal? I get that it is less efficient, but wood burners certainly existed back in that era. Every train would have needed a balloon funnel and there would have been far more significant logging operations and probably deforestation problems, but it doesn't seem completely impossible.
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