It seems too obvious to be a solution, but why did we give up on steam power? I believe nuclear power plants essentially work by generating steam, could this model be used in a car? Does steam not provide enough force to move the water and its container?
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It takes a lot of energy to create steam and power something. It’s a lot easier to just burn gasoline and let that heat push some pistons and move things around.
Back in the early days of atomic power there was a craze to put atomic energy in everything and they did play around with the idea of a nuclear-powered car but it’s not reasonable for a lot of reasons.
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