if you could use one of those vapor diffusers to power a steam engines

Question

Obviously, this is highly impractical, but this is more of a “could I” question

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Answer 1

No

What you think of as steam is actually just water vapor. It’s mostly condensed into fairly large droplets of water which is why you can see it and really has no capacity to do work

Working steam is *hot*(200C+) invisible, highly pressurized, and at really high pressures almost as dense as liquid water

If the steam isn’t hot or at high pressure then it doesn’t have any energy to give up to do work in a steam engine