The Elements

The huge machinery growled and shook as it ripped hungrily into the earth tearing out chunks of rock. The rock was crushed and loaded onto an endless string of rail cars that carried it toward a city and into an enormous building with rows of smokestacks billowing putrid smoke. Inside the building, conveyors hastened the rock up and into a blistering furnace where the temperature soared past the temperature of your kitchen oven, past the temperature of a bonfire, and up toward 3000 degrees...