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We can get to working semiconductors in our garages relatively easily. They won't be anything like the integrated circuits we have today. It would be an intere

• jacquesm 3y ago
  > We can get to working semiconductors in our garages relatively easily. Yes, if you rely on a bunch of hard to obtain tech, a stable energy supply, relatively pure starting chemicals and a whole pile of tooling. I'm aware of Jeri Ellsworth and Sam Zeloof, both are off the charts smart and capable and put the lie to the 'relatively easily' for anything approaching usable devices in quantity. You'd be better off to learn how to wire relays, assuming you're going to find enough power. It's much easier to get to reliable logic circuitry via that route than it is by homebrew semiconductors, that's an optimization that you can do without if you have nothing. Even tubes would be simpler. And much, much easier to make. Nothing that you couldn't do with early 1900's technology. Nuclear power in such a situation will likely only kill the operators. Wind power could be relied on for many decades, the Jacobs Wind Electric powerplant that was installed in the arctic still worked decades later under some of the most harsh conditions on the planet. Keeping it simple is key to anything that needs to work in such a setting.