Questions tagged [manufacturing]
For questions relating to the process, techniques, procedures, technology, purposes, and consequences of manufacturing goods of any kind.
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How to produce steel in space?
My steel producing company wants to move into space for reasons. They are commonly known for producing steel from iron ore with all the necessary steps in between. The main question is how they would ...
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Would manufacturing steel in space be more energy efficient?
A company want to move the production processes of their company into space. More specifically, it is a company that mainly refines iron ore into workable steel. Recently, they have been wondering if ...
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What materials are industrially useful, stored in barrels, and explosive?
I'm making a universe where game tropes are justified. One of them is exploding barrels. In many videogames, there are red barrels that explode when shot. Bad guys stand next to these barrels because ...
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Is using human, especially children's bones, a viable alternative to animal based bone char in sugar production? [closed]
I understand that this is a morbid subject/question, but please bare with me.
So there is a real world process that cane sugar goes through(not always) to purify/whiten it. Bones of cows(and pigs I ...
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What would be the best material to make gauntlets out of? [closed]
If a character trained to fight like a boxer wanted to bring weighted gauntlets to combat in a fantasy setting what material would be the best to do so with? Something heavy to increase the mass on ...
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If I wanted to build a space-faring probe),could it absorb the radiation in space and used it as fuel?
If I wanted to build a space-faring probe (no humans on board), would it be possible to build the structure and covering of the ship so that it absorbed the radiation in space and used it as fuel? I ...
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Why machine worlds?
A machine world (or forge world, or industrial world, or factory world, etc. etc. etc.), as I will define it for the purposes of this question, is a planet (or sufficiently large moon or asteroid) ...
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Acetylene Manufacture: How would Mermaids do it?
Acetylene is useful for making fire underwater. This might be used for cooking, or so you have a way to start a fire right after coming out of the water, or for some underwater welding. Or, maybe even ...
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Maximum economic growth rate in developed countries in the 21st century [closed]
Given a hypothetical 500M-1Bn population at the social, economic, political, financial, industrial, military, etc. capacities available in the most developed countries currently (2023, e.g. Nordic ...
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Justifying why a nanoassembler can only produce inorganic things
So, in the 24th century, advanced nanofactories are developed capable of producing any conceivable product; clothing, electronics, even nanotech, provided it is of inorganic nature. However, it is ...
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Are cheap electric helicopters feasible to produce?
I am designing a human society that exists in the near future. After the development of mass-produced, relatively cheap lithium-sulfur batteries (superior energy density to lithium-ion), electric ...
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How would I classify groups of elements on the periodic table for a person building a factory on a feudal world
This person is dropped on a fantasy feudal world and is basically playing factorio with nanobots, but the challenge is that they don't have resources with which to build everything, hence negotiation ...
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How to start an industrial revolution without capitalism [closed]
In my fantasy world, the countries eventually industrialize. However, some of it is not capitalistic, but rather mercantilist, and the governments are absolute monarchs. Fortunately, the feudal system ...
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How could mollusks be manipulated to control their shell growth?
I wanted to create an alien species that mostly relies biomaterials and biotechnology and one method of growing hard materials could be controlling the growth of seashells. The alien mollusks will be ...
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How to start an industrial revolution without textiles
My world does not have stagnant technology, and of course there is going to be an industrial revolution. In the real industrial revolution, it began with the need for textiles, which led to the ...
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