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   * Depending on the vehicle, its frame (if it has one), axles, and wheels can be used to make a trailer, cart, or similar. (I’ve definitely seen trailers that were just the back half of a pickup truck with a tongue and hitch welded on.) Bonus: the bearings in car wheels tend to be better than those used in regular trailers.   * Depending on the vehicle, its frame (if it has one), axles, and wheels can be used to make a trailer, cart, or similar. (I’ve definitely seen trailers that were just the back half of a pickup truck with a tongue and hitch welded on.) Bonus: the bearings in car wheels tend to be better than those used in regular trailers.
   * The transmission from a vehicle could be rigged up to a wind/water mill to adjust rotational velocity of a sawmill or other industrial application. Certain power tools, like lathes, also sometimes use vehicle transmissions: https://www.practicalmachinist.com/forum/threads/truck-transmission-for-lathe.240574/   * The transmission from a vehicle could be rigged up to a wind/water mill to adjust rotational velocity of a sawmill or other industrial application. Certain power tools, like lathes, also sometimes use vehicle transmissions: https://www.practicalmachinist.com/forum/threads/truck-transmission-for-lathe.240574/
-  * Unordered List ItemSteel leaf springs can be removed from their bundles (they’re long, flat pieces of steel stacked and bound together with strips of steel) and are favorites of blacksmiths for making swords and knives because of the type of steel used.+  * Steel leaf springs can be removed from their bundles (they’re long, flat pieces of steel stacked and bound together with strips of steel) and are favorites of blacksmiths for making swords and knives because of the type of steel used.
   * Earthships can be made with stacked tires packed with rammed earth: https://earthship.com/systems/garbage-management/   * Earthships can be made with stacked tires packed with rammed earth: https://earthship.com/systems/garbage-management/
   * Old automotive engines can be used in chemical reactors that turn waste methane (from landfills etc) into methanol: https://news.mit.edu/2024/emvolon-turns-automotive-engines-into-green-fuel-chemical-plants-1119   * Old automotive engines can be used in chemical reactors that turn waste methane (from landfills etc) into methanol: https://news.mit.edu/2024/emvolon-turns-automotive-engines-into-green-fuel-chemical-plants-1119
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   * Concrete can be cut/broken up and reused https://slrpnk.net/post/11909269   * Concrete can be cut/broken up and reused https://slrpnk.net/post/11909269
  
-Last but not least, with Internal Combustion Engine cars, there’s always conversion to run on [[https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-vehicles-firewood-in-the-fuel-tank/|woodgas]] for some limited uses, or [[https://fortune.com/2022/12/25/convert-vintage-classic-muscle-cars-into-electric-vehicles-ev/|conversion]] to [[https://www.swtimes.com/story/special/2019/11/17/they-turn-old-hotrods-into/2270831007/|electric]]. And if all else fails, you can always melt them down for your society’s steel manufacturing needs – electric arc furnace smelters running off a green grid, recycling, are about as close to zero emission steel as you’re likely to get, and the metal is already refined so I think you could get pretty tight control over the quality on the output.+Last but not least, with Internal Combustion Engine cars, there’s always conversion to run on [[https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-vehicles-firewood-in-the-fuel-tank/|woodgas]] for some limited uses, or [[https://fortune.com/2022/12/25/convert-vintage-classic-muscle-cars-into-electric-vehicles-ev/|conversion]] to [[https://www.swtimes.com/story/special/2019/11/17/they-turn-old-hotrods-into/2270831007/|electric]]. And if all else fails, you can always melt them down for your society’s steel manufacturing needs – electric arc furnace smelters running off a green grid, recycling, are about as close to zero emission steel as you’re likely to get, and the metal is already refined so I think you could get pretty tight control over the quality on the output. [[https://interestingengineering.com/energy/switzerland-solar-furnaces-recycle-luxury-steel|The first solar steel recycling facilities]] (which use mirrored solar concentrators to use sunlight directly) are coming online now, so that may be a more practical option than I originally thought. This would be great because using solar heat directly saves lossy conversion to electricity and back.
  
 But I hope you’ll consider some of the above possibilities too. The parts are out there, we might as well use them. But I hope you’ll consider some of the above possibilities too. The parts are out there, we might as well use them.