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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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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You get steam by boiling water. How do you boil the water? *That’s* the power source, not the steam.

The typical answer has been “burn *coal* to boil the water”.

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