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We could always have done a lot with wood and steam engines or even making wood gas or ethanol.
by mrfusion 6y ago
We could always have done a lot with wood and steam engines or even making wood gas or ethanol.
- spurgu 6y agoA lot yes, but anything near what we've done now? Over the course of a couple of [thousands|million|billion] years sure. And if at a slower pace that would definitely (or should have) resulted in quicker reaction skills/abilities than we have now with a 50-100 year timespan within where our established way of being will have collapsed.
- api 6y agoWe eventually would have discovered fission, and without fossil fuel alternatives it would have taken off on a much larger scale.