08-13-2009, 01:40 PM | #31 |
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08-14-2009, 09:29 AM | #33 |
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Re: Coal missing from High-Tech?
The table you build with the wood you'd otherwise burn.
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The story involved a far, far future that had regressed to a Renaissance level of technology, so about the only fossil fuel I conceived as realistically being left was coal and apparently that was historically out of the question given the technology base I was using (specifically one rule about the setting is no gun powder or explosives).
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08-14-2009, 09:04 PM | #35 |
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Re: Coal missing from High-Tech?
IIRC the steam engine (Newcombe, then Watt) was developed to pump water out of coal mines. Say, early 18th Century
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08-15-2009, 05:39 AM | #36 |
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Re: Coal missing from High-Tech?
Newcomen was from southwest England. Bit of a shortage of coal mines down there. Tin mines, on the other hand, were a major local industry.
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08-15-2009, 07:13 AM | #37 | |
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Being Antipodean, I have a lack of primary sources, on which to draw. However, I will naively claim that Wikipedia is right when it claims that he installed steam engines in a number of mines across England (See 2nd paragraph) But this is a tangent from the real reason of this thread. IIRC, the cutting down of timber for creating charcoal was a major limit for steel production in England. When coal mining supplimented this, surely there should be a commensurate increase in steel production. But then I could be wrong.
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