Astounding backstory behind XKCD's "Time"

windmill are harder to put together than a steam engine

Actually the discussion was the construction of the technology itself, not the infrastructure to make it functional so I stand by my point. If it’s an acceptable suggestion to “sequester carbon in the form of clean-burning waxy nodules” for future use then why can’t you sequester electric motors and magnets? One is renewable and the other is finite… I know which I’d choose for rebuilding civilisation.