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		ben_w 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chinese astronauts make rocket fuel and oxygen in ... No magic required: the tech for transporting electricity predates writing, and that by about six millenia; while reusable storage was only about 27 years after dynamo generators, 1859 vs. 1832. Both have since been improved upon somewhat.

dr_dshiv 5 months ago [–]

What are you referring to? Copper?

ben_w 5 months ago | [–]

Mostly, but gold and silver are also simultaneously antiquity-era metals and great electrical conductors.

No generators to connect to a power grid, nothing to use the power for, but they could still transport electricity in the time before writing.

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