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[–] zerakith@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are some people on working bringing it back with biomass https://csrail.org/

I'm not really clear on what the proposed advantages would be over modern traction though.

I suppose in theory steam is just water vapour so maybe you could eliminate the air pollution aspect of it but there would still be impacts of increased humidity.

[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

and the emissions from actually burning the biomass.

[–] zerakith@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah I was thinking hypothetically of just the steam bit independent of the mechanism to heat the water.

I remember someone arguing that the future was nuclear powered steam engines to me once...

Snowpiercer shit.

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

We can have the best of both worlds if we use electric-steam engines!

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago
[–] chillbo_baggins@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Hearing steam whistles all the time in the city, probably felt like the future