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There's a few things you'll have to deal with. The first is that water pipes are typically designed to not be punctured. In fact, given that water damage can cost millions, there's an interest in it never ever ever ever ever breaking, so they make them quite strong. You might be able to work around this if you found a pipe which ran a long distance along ...
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Electrolyte solutions. You could use electrolyte solutions in pipes in place of wires. Instead of wires you could have tubes and pipes of electrolyte - salt solutions. These conduct electricity. They could substitute for wires in many circumstances. I think some electrolytes conduct better than others and some produce less corrosion than others. A ...
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Not much. Without metal, you unwind most of the tech gains from World War II and later in all fields.
Electricity. None of the electronics can be done with wood. Power generation and transmission is all metal.
Transportation: The Soviets did work out how to build a stealth aircraft using wood, competing with USA’s stealth bomber; it could fly high, but it ...
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