• @[email protected]
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    454 months ago

    There’s a movie called Steamboy whose premise is the creation of a device that can store steam at nearly infinite pressure

    So with a device like that, you might not need coal for your flying machine =)

    • @[email protected]
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      214 months ago

      I feel like storing steam at nearly infinite pressure is easier than getting steam to nearly infinite pressure

    • Phuntis
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      54 months ago

      where do you think you get the steam from in the first place

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        44 months ago

        Coal, but the fantastical flying contraption in this thought exercise uses a container of pre-pressurized steam, so it wouldn’t “run out of coal” like the one in the post. It’d just run out of steam