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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

but so were steam engines.

Fun fact: we still use steam engines in quite a lot of things, actually. Not so much with wood and coil furnaces to power boilers in locomotives, but just about every power plant uses a steam engine.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Comparing a modern steam turbine to a steam engine is a little bit like comparing a jet engine to a box fan.

    It's technically correct, the best kind of correct, but they are wildly different machines.

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