Bronze Age technology could aid switch to clean energy
Bronze Age technology could aid switch to clean energy
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Bronze Age technology could aid switch to clean energy
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To wit: Firebricks store heat, cheaply.
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Primitive Technology on YouTube is waaaay ahead of you.
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Glass industry has been doing it since the 1850's with "regenerator" furnaces
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regenerators of this kind are also used in some types of iron smelting furnaces
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Well hot damn!!!
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Yes. Hot damn. Thats what the planet is. Hot and damned.
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With that attitude it is!
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*becoming hot and damned. There's gonna be a generation in between who's living in a tropical paradise, depending on where they live.
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👍 article. Firebricks may accelerate our transition to sustainable energy.
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One thing that really got my attention when I studied nanotechnology is how many original technologies we still use regularly, just in a refined/modified form (Chemical Vapour Deposition, a technique used heavily in the production of many ordinary products from computer chips to chip bags, is fundamentally the exact same technology first used to smelt ore). It actually wouldn't be hard at all to transition to lower impact technologies in a lot of places if people were okay with not electrifying/connecting everything possible.
I would assume the push to connect everything under the sun is driven more by cheap electronics and corporate marketing teams rather than actual consumer demand. Making products "smart" is cheaper and more profitable than making them better quality. Go figure.
how is smelting similar to CVD, elaborate plz
They're both essentially vaporizing a metal with high heat to deposit upon a substrate above. Early smelting was just looking to purify the metal and remove impurities, and now we've refined that same technique with strictly controlled parameters to deposit exactly what metal we want to have where, to build the microscopic features of modern computer chips.
But think of the shareholders!!! The poor billionaire shareholders!!!