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@LukeAlmighty @Nepiant
A lot of this. Charcoal gives you poor efficiency. And you won't be able to grow trees fast enough to even maintain, let alone technologically grow, a society with a high number population.
Again, in the 90s, we were panicking because we were using too many trees to make paper. We were already burning other stuff for energy. In the winter, you're gonna use A LOT more trees to heat up a house than you'd use for your paper needs in the same amount of time.
You might have some steam stuff from charcoal, but you're not exploring advanced technology off of it.