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Your steam engine will likely be less efficient than a pair of oxen. It'll need a lot of wood, water, and will always leak. If you want something truly revolut
by cyberax 8mo ago
Your steam engine will likely be less efficient than a pair of oxen. It'll need a lot of wood, water, and will always leak.
If you want something truly revolutionary, try the modern horse saddle and horse collar (and bit).
- fc417fc802 8mo agoAgreed, there's a lower bound set by the other available tech. I didn't do the best job articulating there. In the context of the thread my objection is that the economics of the finished product aren't the issue. The problem is arriving at working knowledge of the tech in the first place. But that's clearly not a logical impossibility, merely expensive and dependent on lots of surrounding factors. The obsession of a single rich elite, not economics, is precisely how much of early chemistry came to be.