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Works for a week, gets fully covered in coal, gets 5 grams of iron.
I love this guy. He constantly reminds us we live in a privileged era.
He also demonstrates how industry was responsible for significant deforestation around their centres. It has also been linked to collapse of civilisations.
A good book to see how critical wood was to people: https://aforestjourney.com/
Yeah, I’ve come to realize even in the medieval world, people had a huge impact on the environment even then. Esp. regarding wood. There’s a reason cutting wood and gathering sticks was valuable–people needed daily cooking fires, and heat in the winter.
Add industry, even just smelting iron, bronze, copper, or firing bricks, and that’s an even bigger need for fuel.
I imagine natural game was under similar pressures, which is why people moved to herding/farming instead of relying on hunting and gathering. And game was also affected by trees being cut for industry and fuel.
Glassblowing was another big one. Plus framing for stone construction.
Colonialism seems to born out of the need for more wood since it underpinned all energy, trade, and construction. We can see now how fossil fuels are working out for us instead.
There are some good examples of bay side cities being abandoned due to siltation of their bays, some kilometres worth of silt. Massive centres of trade and then nothing due to erosion because of a lack of trees.
If John/Primitive Tech can focus on efficient energy usage then all the better.
Doesn’t the piped bot crawl this community? Anyone know if I can invoke that?
I recently added this to Firefox LibRedirect. It doesn’t work for mobile but solves the problem on all other websites too. Plus you can point it to any instance
Sweet 👌
You can but sometimes it’s nice to not see it.
You just message it with the community “[email protected]”, I believe.
Pros: no fanning/bellowing
Cons: needs a stool to reach the chimney…this channel is a treat. He made a natural draft furnace 6y ago, and with this one the improvements are visible - addressing short-circuit drafts, stronger airflow due to parallel tuyeres, and apparently far more yield. (Back then he got no iron from the slag around the tuyere.)
On other similar channels they make one video demonstrating how the iron is obtained and in the next video they have enough material to build an axe and a knife and in the third one they’re making a railroad.
This guy is a treasure. Its always a treat ending the day with a calm video of the man just breaking som sticks and pounding some rocks for us.
