n7axw wrote:Hi SWM,
I rather doubt it. There is going to be an ice period on Safehold. It could well be that such period will be shortened. But I don't believe you can skip it altogether. Those advanced energy sources you mention require tech Safehold will have to grow into and the ice period will be a stage in the growth to getting to that tech.
Don
Thank you for saying that.
SWM, I mistook you for Weird Harold, sorry. He dislikes the pollution IC engines out out and is a advocate of skipping over the IC engine period altogether.
On the topic at hand, to get to the more advanced heat sources, especially for vehicles and things that require a lot of power, that means oil based fuels. Excepting wood and coal, which are more inefficient than oil, I don't see any fuel there could be to make heat for a moving (truck/ship) vehicle. A power plant -might- get something else, but I'm not sure about that until they get to nuclear power. In the meantime though IC engines allow for cheap and easy engines and vehicles being built and a much more rapid and vaster expansion of technologies to more people. Steam power is nice, but it is a lot more limited and there are decades of very well documented IC engine development that can be used.
But to get to a question, besides wood and coal and oil based fuels, what other heat sources are there that are more advanced? Personally I'd say a IC engine is more advanced than a steam engine.