Was thinking the other day: what if one was granted immortality...and every other human disappeared? What level of technology is sustainable for one person, working 60 hrs/week? 21st c. for a few decades. 1920 for a few centuries. >>>
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E.g. I think one could make biodiesel or producer gas, and run a tractor off of that, and use it to split and carry the logs for the producer gas, and plant and harvest the corn and potatoes, etc But after maybe 300 years all the hydraulic lines are rotted, all the old engines >
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That one could find in the first few decades have been used up, and all the others have rusted. So then you fall back to...what? 1800? Blacksmithing isn't too hard and there's infinite steel. You can keep forging plow blades. But...man, the work, just to hold steady at 1800!
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The trick there is to spend a lot of your early time prepping spare engines for long-term storage. Of course, that just pushes back the inevitable.
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