@nugger@KarlDahl@confederatehobo Knowing how the first blue LED was made, I think such tech is still feasible even with a collapse, but at extreme cost and difficulty.
@Netoraremancer@KarlDahl@confederatehobo YUP VAPOR DEPOSITING GALLIUM ET CET IN A CLEANROOM MAY BE LOST FOREVER BUT THOSE FILAMENTS ARE BASICALLY FOREVER UNLESS YOU PHYSICALLY BREAK EN
@KarlDahl@confederatehobo OIL LAMPS AND CANDLES ARE FUSSY AND CANDLES ARE SPEMSIVE GAS LIGHTS ARE COMPLICATED YOU NEED SOME DELIVERY METHOD YOU NEED A CART THAT DUMPS CARBIDE OR COAL INTO YOUR CELLAR AND IF ITS COAL THEN YOU ALSO HAVE A GASSIFIER FURNACE TO MAKE COAL GAS OR YOU GET A NATURAL GAS TYPE INFRASTRUCTURE FROM THE COKE BURNERS OR FROM MINING OIL
@KarlDahl@confederatehobo I REALLY HAD MY HOPE THAT A DUMB TOP LOADING UPDRAFT WOOD GASSIFIER WITH A GLOBE FROM AN OIL LAMP WOULD WORK GREAT JUST HAVE LIGHT OUT OF STICKS AND PINE NEEDLES FROM YOUR BACK YARD
BUT IN MY EXPERIMENTS I CAN'T GET THE FIRE TO LAST LONGER THAN FIVE MINUTES A CHARGE TRYING TO FRANKENSTEIN A REALLY TALL CAN OF FUEL RESULTS IN AN UNRELIABLE FIRE BECAUSE THE PRIMARY DRAFT STRUGGLES TO FLOW THROUGH ALL OF THE FUEL
@KarlDahl@confederatehobo CARBIDE LAMPS? THEYRE COOL BUT NOTHING SPECIAL ALL CANDLING METHODS SUCK TBH THEY'RE EITHER FUSSY AND OR SPENDSIVE MATERIAL OR LABOR OR CIVILIZATIONAL COMPLEXITY
@Netoraremancer@nugger@KarlDahl@confederatehobo there are some guys that do the game of "how could you make electronics if you were stuck on a desert island/in a collapse" it's a very interesting thing to read about.