Re:First batch of student’s washing machines shipped to Iraq
by extra88 on Friday August 13, 2021 @01:20PM
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The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi is an excellent novel set in a future in which "carbon fuel sources have become depleted, and manually wound springs are used as energy storage devices [0]." There are also genetically-engineered animals that are particularly strong and good at converting food calories into kinetic energy (for winding storage springs or other uses) and treadle-powered desktop computers [1], like sewing machines before electricity.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Windup_Girl
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treadle