/sci/ - Science & Math

>a dynamo?
a steam turbine more likely?

>>2004394
What natural resources, from where, and how would you harvest them?
We'll assume they have a high school education, but teaching them what you know is a very good idea. Also, maybe developing a method of recording information (either on clay or if you could somehow develop paper or parchment or even hides) so you could write down all you know in case something happens to you.
How would you build a blast furnace to work the metal? Perhaps with stone and clay and an accelerant of some kind (maybe the methane?) I'm actually not sure about the technical details of blacksmithing from scratch. Though I'm sure it's absolutely critical to our progress.

The very notion of using 'hot air' to push metal around is ridiculous.
1. It takes a ridiculous amount of energy to convert water into steam.
2. The pressure differential necessary for steam to move a steel turbine would ALSO require a ridiculous amount of energy.
3. The pressure differential would be immediately lost as soon as the steel turbine moved even a little, so you would have to apply this already ludicrous amount of energy CONSTANTLY.
4. You're applying all this heat and energy to a single confined space, what happens to all that heat? There's a very real risk of damaging the facility, assuming you could even provide that much heat to the device in the first place.