The article talks about stress relief when it went down the rabbit hole of tiny mom & pop mills who were turning their kilns off every night because they didn't

The article talks about stress relief when it went down the rabbit hole of tiny mom & pop mills who were turning their kilns off every night because they didn't have a third shift and later discovering that turning them off periodically produces better lumber because it allows the wood to relieve stress and suffer less distortion. However, the continuous process is basically just a slow moving conveyor belt where you are constantly feeding green wood in one end and dried lumber is constantly being spit out of the far end. I don't see why you couldn't incorporate ambient air chambers in strategic places on the belt to destress the lumber, at the cost of making the entire production line somewhat longer.