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The “oxygen bottleneck” may leave aliens stuck with primitive technology (bigthink.com)
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[–] VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Because of the different possibilities to get combustion (example- sodium+water), a more-acurate bottleneck for a species would be "a chemistry & thermodynamics bottleneck". The ability to exploit temperature differences and local elements. And there are many ways to do it... plasma, burning, oxidizing, fusion\fission\compress things, infrared radiation, other radiation types, etc.