• Contramuffin@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Baghdad battery is pseudoarcheology with no actual basis in reality.

    Batteries are apparently quite easy to make, though, as long as you have sulfuric acid. It’s been a known substance since antiquity so you could probably get or produce some. They obviously wouldn’t have called it sulfuric acid though

    Proper electrochemistry would have also been really easy too, just shove 2 different metals into a box of water with a bit of electrolytes and you’ve got yourself a battery. Not sure if you’d be able to produce enough voltage to do any meaningful work though. Maybe if you hook up a bunch in series

    Realistically, I think the limitations of modern technology functioning in the past is not really the knowledge of that technology, but the lack of infrastructure. You can’t make a computer even if you knew how to because the manufacturing infrastructure and supply chains required to build a computer simply doesn’t exist

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      Yeah, I was just thinking about a simple wind or solar turbine would need an alternator of some kind and I wouldn’t know how to make that.