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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I'm not sure that enough power for large-scale manufacturing is plausible; the industrial revolution was founded on easy access to fuels we've mostly used up...
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True; OTOH, we now have knowledge about more advanced energy systems and materials they did not have at the outset of the IR, including nuclear power, photovoltaics, graphite, plastics and other alloys. In many cases, having just one plant at the outset that could construct the seed materials for other plants could get things going relatively quickly.