Talk:Remnant/@comment-30991932-20160903231426/@comment-410526-20160904003314

@SYUTK: Dust is far more powerful, versatile and ubiquitous than gas, it's simply not comparable at all. We use gas mostly for combustion, to drive turbines or combustion engines.

On the other hand, Dust can produce virtually any form of energy, apparently entirely without the need to be transduced (changed to another form of energy). Dust can produce heat (fire), it can produce electricity (lightning), it can cool(!) things (ice), it can produce thrust and gravity fields (!!!) all entirely without needing to be converted to another form of energy.

The implications of this are massive, and more than explain why they don't use solar power. Technology would have evolved in a completely different way. Even if you could use other sources to produce electricity or other forms of work (which they obviously would easily be capable of), it probably doesn't even run most of their technology (how the hell are you going to run an airship with a fossil fuel if it needs gravity dust to work?)