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Thermal solar can be built 200 years ago. Although coal is very useful for production of steel, it is not essential as wood can be used instead.
by fpoling 7mo ago
Thermal solar can be built 200 years ago. Although coal is very useful for production of steel, it is not essential as wood can be used instead.
- triceratops 7mo ago> Thermal solar can be built 200 years ago That's good for heating water, but I'm not aware of it generating a significant amount of electricity even today.
- fpoling 7mo agoSoviet Union built one in Crimea. It worked. And nothing special was used that could not be built 200 years ago. But it was rather inefficient and in presence of cheap coal there were no point to continue with it after the collapse of Soviet Union.
- rimunroe 7mo ago> Although coal is very useful for production of steel, it is not essential as wood can be used instead. Wasn't the production of charcoal in Europe during the middle ages the cause of rather massive deforestation?
- stvltvs 7mo agoI don't know about Europe, but mining deforested most of Nevada's pinyon-juniper woodlands to produce charcoal during the 1800s.