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[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 46 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 months ago

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

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

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

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

Seems sufficiently advanced enough 👍

[–] Atrichum@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

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

[–] phuntis@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 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