To be clear, none of this stuff is going to work on the first try.  The Project is a research-and-prototyping facility.  It's the place which tries out ways of doing this stuff in practice, and gets it working well enough for a major refinery or forge to be built -

- presumably somewhere else, next to an iron-ore mine, or a coal mine for coal fuel, or a forest for wood fuel if adding fire elementals can make wood fires suitable for refining or forging.  Unless Teleport logistics are very different from what Keltham suspects they are; people talk about the Worldwound in a way that suggests Teleporting lots of stuff is a significant expense.

To be clear, none of this stuff is going to work on the first try.  The Project is a research-and-prototyping facility.  It's the place which tries out ways of doing this stuff in practice, and gets it working well enough for a major refinery or forge to be built -

- presumably somewhere else, next to an iron-ore mine, or a coal mine for coal fuel, or a forest for wood fuel if adding fire elementals can make wood fires suitable for refining or forging.  Unless Teleport logistics are very different from what Keltham suspects they are; people talk about the Worldwound in a way that suggests Teleporting lots of stuff is a significant expense.

Project employees, Law-wielders, are not distinguished by their knowing about things like reverse-flow or bright ideas like preheating fuel and air using a fire elemental.  The domain experts brought on-site can be told about that part simply enough and without a lot of prior background education.  The tier-2s and tier-1s and Keltham himself, have the job of knowing how to try things, tweak things, observe things, and get them to actually work; and, to a lesser extent, understanding what is actually going on with heat and temperature and tiny vibrating molecules, and using that knowledge to organize their experiments.

To be clear, none of this stuff is going to work on the first try.  The Project is a research-and-prototyping facility.  It's the place which tries out ways of doing this stuff in practice, and gets it working well enough for a major refinery or forge to be built -

- presumably somewhere else, next to an iron-ore mine, or a coal mine for coal fuel, or a forest for wood fuel if adding fire elementals can make wood fires suitable for refining or forging.  Unless Teleport logistics are very different from what Keltham suspects they are; people talk about the Worldwound in a way that suggests Teleporting lots of stuff is a significant expense.

Project employees, Law-wielders, are not distinguished by their knowing about engineering tricks like reverse-flow or bright ideas like preheating fuel and air using a fire elemental.  The domain experts brought on-site can be told about that part simply enough and without a lot of prior background.  The tier-2s and tier-1s and Keltham himself, have the job of knowing how to try things, tweak things, observe things, and get them to actually work; and, to a lesser extent, understanding what is actually going on with heat and temperature and tiny vibrating molecules, and using that knowledge to organize their experiments.

To be clear, none of this stuff is going to work on the first try.  The Project is a research-and-prototyping facility.  It's the place which tries out ways of doing this stuff in practice, and gets it working well enough for a major refinery or forge to be built -

- presumably somewhere else, next to an iron-ore mine, or a coal mine for coal fuel, or a forest for wood fuel if adding fire elementals can make wood fires suitable for refining or forging.  Unless Teleport logistics are very different from what Keltham suspects they are; people talk about the Worldwound in a way that suggests Teleporting lots of stuff is a significant expense.

Project employees, Law-wielders, are not distinguished by their knowing about engineering tricks like reverse-flow or bright ideas like preheating fuel and air using a fire elemental.  The domain experts brought on-site can be told about that part simply enough and without a lot of prior background.  The tier-2s and tier-1s and Keltham himself, have the job of learning how to try things, tweak things, observe things, and get them to actually work; and, to a lesser extent, understanding what is actually going on with heat and temperature and tiny vibrating molecules, and using that knowledge to organize their experiments.

To be clear, none of this stuff is going to work on the first try.  The Project is a research-and-prototyping facility.  It's the place which tries out ways of doing this stuff in practice, and gets it working well enough for a major refinery or forge to be built -

- presumably somewhere else, next to an iron-ore mine, or a coal mine for coal fuel, or a forest for wood fuel if adding fire elementals can make wood fires suitable for refining or forging.  Unless Teleport logistics are very different from what Keltham suspects they are; people talk about the Worldwound in a way that suggests Teleporting lots of stuff is a significant expense.

Project employees, Law-wielders, are not distinguished by their knowing about engineering tricks like reverse-flow or bright ideas like preheating fuel and air using a fire elemental.  The domain experts brought on-site can be told about that part simply enough and without a lot of prior background.  The tier-2s and tier-1s and Keltham himself, have the job of meta-learning how to try things, tweak things, observe things, and get them to actually work; and, to a lesser extent, understanding what is actually going on with heat and temperature and tiny vibrating molecules, and using that knowledge to organize their experiments.