Bronze Age technology could aid switch to clean energy : technology

[+] ogmios@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

how is smelting similar to CVD, elaborate plz

[+] ogmios@sh.itjust.works -8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 years ago

this is neither what smelting is or what CVD is. smelting goes from oxide to metal, and uses carbon monoxide at ~atmospheric pressure for that. early smelting was used for smelting, but early purification method was forging. there's Mond process, but it's not smelting. CVD occurs in vacuum and uses something probably rather reactive on its own that decomposes on target surface, sometimes giving one atomic layer at a time, and it doesn't have to be metal

[–] Entropywins@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I work in a fab and I assure you CVD is not like smelting...you gave me a chuckle though!

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

The internet is a series of tuuuubes!!!

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

But think of the shareholders!!! The poor billionaire shareholders!!!

[–] EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago

To wit: Firebricks store heat, cheaply.

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 17 points 2 years ago

Primitive Technology on YouTube is waaaay ahead of you.

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Glass industry has been doing it since the 1850's with "regenerator" furnaces

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_melting_furnace

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

regenerators of this kind are also used in some types of iron smelting furnaces

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well hot damn!!!

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes. Hot damn. Thats what the planet is. Hot and damned.

[–] Darkenfolk@dormi.zone 1 points 2 years ago

*becoming hot and damned. There's gonna be a generation in between who's living in a tropical paradise, depending on where they live.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

With that attitude it is!

[+] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 2 years ago

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[–] drawerair@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

👍 article. Firebricks may accelerate our transition to sustainable energy.

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