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To: cripplecreek

Materials, tool and die would be the problem. Medical and sanitation would be improvements. Force multipliers should be simple to build but then we are back to the original problem. Consider, I want to build a simple low pressure boiler. To do so I need to be able to weld or solider. For that I need point heating. So let’s say I know how to make acetylene. How would I compress it? If I could compress it how could I store it? See how the issues compound? And how would I not get burned at the stake for witchcraft?


183 posted on 04/12/2015 10:27:44 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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How would I compress it?

Very carefully. Acetylene is dissolved in acetone in a ceramic sponge under pressure. Get just the gas at too high a pressure and it will reconfigure its structure with a sudden release of heat and likely destroy your workshop.

191 posted on 04/13/2015 2:38:51 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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