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Hmm, I would have thought we could use wood fires to get to wood pellet steam engines and from there we could work our way up.
by renewiltord 2y ago
Hmm, I would have thought we could use wood fires to get to wood pellet steam engines and from there we could work our way up.
- readthenotes1 2y agoWood pellets are made how? Ask yourself "how do I make the tool to do that?" Recursively Steam engines made of what? Ditto E.g., steps to make wood pellets https://www.biopelletmachines.com/how-are-wood-pellets-made/ https://www.biopelletmachines.com/how-are-wood-pellets-made/
- smallmancontrov 2y agoIs the modern optimized form of the technology necessary for the application? Obviously not. You are the infomercial salesman who can't use a screwdriver. Or an ax.
- dredmorbius 2y agoGood reply but it reads far better without the final two sentences, BTW. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43456130 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43456130>
- readthenotes1 2y agoIt is not obvious to me that without the efficiencies provided by modern technology that the result would be a good use of energy and material.
- dredmorbius 2y agoThe fact that wood pellets are made by one specifically industrially-intensive process doesn't mean that they must be made by such a process. Interesting historical footnote: Kingston charcoal briquettes, a slightly larger-form of wood pellets, were created as an incidental product of Henry Fords automotive factories. These produced a large quantity of scrap wood waste which Ford saw a market for. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsford_(charcoal)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsford_(charcoal)#History>