Dalmatian90
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Saw a reference to "Acid Mill Brook" West Greenwich, RI which is just the middle of nowhere Southern New England style...which got me thinking, "How the heck do you make acid?"
http://northernwoodlands.org/articles/article/the-wood-chemical-industry-in-the-northeast
It did make me dream of some post-apocalyptic world where all these OWBs around have been replaced by combination charcoal kilns / distillers that produce raw materials for what little industry remains along with the heat for the homes and shops, delivered to market in trucks converted to run on compressed wood gas.
(West Greenwich is a perfect example of thin soils that were depleted by the charcoal industry; there are areas in and near West Greenwich the forests obviously still struggle to fully recover.)
http://northernwoodlands.org/articles/article/the-wood-chemical-industry-in-the-northeast
It did make me dream of some post-apocalyptic world where all these OWBs around have been replaced by combination charcoal kilns / distillers that produce raw materials for what little industry remains along with the heat for the homes and shops, delivered to market in trucks converted to run on compressed wood gas.
(West Greenwich is a perfect example of thin soils that were depleted by the charcoal industry; there are areas in and near West Greenwich the forests obviously still struggle to fully recover.)
