Eli5: If we had steam powered trains back in the day, why didn’t steam become a common “clean” energy source? Why did it die out?
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Steam power is still around. Coal power plants make power by burning coal to boil water into steam, which spins a turbine that generates electricity.
It’s the same with natural gas and oil power plants. Even nuclear power plants use steam to generate power, only instead of burning fuel they use nuclear decay to heat the water.
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