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minus-squarebrown567linkfedilinkarrow-up37arrow-down1·14 hours agoThere’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 =)
minus-squarefaintwhenfree@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoAt that point just call it magic no? Magic that works in metal pipes and spheres.
minus-squareAdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·9 hours agoI feel like storing steam at nearly infinite pressure is easier than getting steam to nearly infinite pressure
minus-squarebrown567linkfedilinkarrow-up9·9 hours agoThat’s actually covered in the movie as well! They needed to find special water to make infinitely-pressurizable steam =)
minus-squareabbotsbury@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 hours agoI think It’s, like, a Bag of Holding, but for steam.
minus-squarePhuntis@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 hours agowhere do you think you get the steam from in the first place
minus-squarebrown567linkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 hours agoCoal, 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
minus-squareAtrichum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 hours agoAh, I loved that movie but had forgotten the name.
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 =)
At that point just call it magic no? Magic that works in metal pipes and spheres.
Seems sufficiently advanced enough 👍
I feel like storing steam at nearly infinite pressure is easier than getting steam to nearly infinite pressure
That’s actually covered in the movie as well! They needed to find special water to make infinitely-pressurizable steam =)
I think It’s, like, a Bag of Holding, but for steam.
where do you think you get the steam from in the first place
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
Ah, I loved that movie but had forgotten the name.