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brown567@sh.itjust.works · 4 个月前

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 =)

AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world · 4 个月前

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

brown567@sh.itjust.works · 4 个月前

That’s actually covered in the movie as well! They needed to find special water to make infinitely-pressurizable steam =)

abbotsbury@lemmy.world · 4 个月前

I think It’s, like, a Bag of Holding, but for steam.

faintwhenfree@lemmus.org · 4 个月前

At that point just call it magic no? Magic that works in metal pipes and spheres.

brown567@sh.itjust.works · 4 个月前

Seems sufficiently advanced enough 👍

Phuntis@sopuli.xyz · 4 个月前

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

brown567@sh.itjust.works · 4 个月前

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

Atrichum@lemmy.world · 4 个月前

Ah, I loved that movie but had forgotten the name.