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| Aug 16, 2017 at 14:32 | answer | added | JBH | timeline score: 8 | |
| Aug 16, 2017 at 14:25 | answer | added | Andrew Neely | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 16, 2017 at 13:47 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 16, 2017 at 13:37 | comment | added | AlexP | The actual industrial revolution started with water power. You should really look it up -- they made impressing feats of engineering, of which the one which I like most are hydraulic accumulators, essentially batteries storing energy in Earth's gravitational field. Chemical industry would work pretty well with vegetable and animal-based raw feeds; only a small part of the oil (and an minuscule part of the coal) is used in chemical industry. What's actually most restrictive in a world without coal is that siderurgy would have never taken off; iron smelting furnaces consume a lot of coke. | |
| Aug 16, 2017 at 13:30 | answer | added | ZioByte | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 16, 2017 at 13:04 | comment | added | user8827 | Wood fires can't smelt iron, and the production of charcoal is lossy. +1 Florian. | |
| Aug 16, 2017 at 12:40 | comment | added | Florian Schaetz | Well, for starters, chances are that there would be no woods anymore... | |
| Aug 16, 2017 at 11:39 | answer | added | L.Dutch♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 16, 2017 at 11:27 | history | edited | Cthulhu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 16, 2017 at 11:17 | comment | added | Aric | Welcome to WorldBuilding! If you have a moment please take the tour and visit the help center to learn more about the site. This question is very broad and may not have a decisive answer. Could you edit your question to make it more direct? | |
| Aug 16, 2017 at 11:17 | comment | added | F1Krazy | Welcome to WorldBuilding.SE! Just so you're aware, these kinds of "how would things be different if-" questions tend to be closed for being too broad. I also think this may be a duplicate, there are other questions here that ask similar things. | |
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| Aug 16, 2017 at 11:07 | history | asked | Cthulhu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |