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There's a movie called Steamboy whose premise is the creation of a device that can store steam at nearly infinite pressure
So with a device like that, you might not need coal for your flying machine =)
I feel like storing steam at nearly infinite pressure is easier than getting steam to nearly infinite pressure
That's actually covered in the movie as well! They needed to find special water to make infinitely-pressurizable steam =)
I think It's, like, a Bag of Holding, but for steam.
At that point just call it magic no? Magic that works in metal pipes and spheres.
Seems sufficiently advanced enough 👍
Ah, I loved that movie but had forgotten the name.
where do you think you get the steam from in the first place
Coal, but the fantastical flying contraption in this thought exercise uses a container of pre-pressurized steam, so it wouldn't "run out of coal" like the one in the post. It'd just run out of steam