However, any Victorian-era society which actually tried to create steampunk technology would soon find itself in stark trouble. Barring [[FunctionalMagic magical intervention]], the power requirements necessary to make real-world versions of steampunk devices (or at least Victorian-era versions of 20th century technology) would be enormous, and would soon exhaust all available supplies of coal and wood. [[MohsScaleofScienceFictionHardness A real steampunk society]] would have to either immediately transform into a fully modern society (with oil, gas, and nuclear power driving devices made of modern, lighter materials) or would quickly become, in all probability, a technological dead end. With this said, the recent development of a number of designs of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_stove rocket stoves]] beginning in the 1980s, have demonstrated that a highly fuel efficient steam boiler may in fact not be quite so impractical after all, at least on a small scale. On this point, it is also worth mentioning that the average contemporary power station still runs primarily on large coal-fired steam turbines.

to:

18th May '13 9:52:17 AM petrus4

Send petrus4 a PM notification explaining the badness of natter: natter-fy

Changed line(s) 16,17 (click to see context) from:

to:

18th May '13 9:50:51 AM petrus4

Send petrus4 a PM notification explaining the badness of natter: natter-fy

Changed line(s) 16,17 (click to see context) from:

to:

18th May '13 9:50:15 AM petrus4

Send petrus4 a PM notification explaining the badness of natter: natter-fy

Changed line(s) 16,17 (click to see context) from:

to:

18th May '13 9:48:05 AM petrus4

Send petrus4 a PM notification explaining the badness of natter: natter-fy

Changed line(s) 14,15 (click to see context) from:

to:

18th May '13 9:45:49 AM petrus4

Send petrus4 a PM notification explaining the badness of natter: natter-fy

Changed line(s) 22,23 (click to see context) from:

to:

However, any Victorian-era society which actually tried to create steampunk technology would soon find itself in stark trouble. Barring [[FunctionalMagic magical intervention]], the power requirements necessary to make real-world versions of steampunk devices (or at least Victorian-era versions of 20th century technology) would be enormous, and would soon exhaust all available supplies of coal and wood. [[MohsScaleofScienceFictionHardness A real steampunk society]] would have to either immediately transform into a fully modern society (with oil, gas, and nuclear power driving devices made of modern, lighter materials) or would quickly become, in all probability, a technological dead end. With this said, the recent development of a number of designs of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_stove rocket stoves]] beginning in the 1980s, have demonstrated that a highly fuel efficient steam boiler may in fact not be quite so impractical after all, at least on a small scale.  On this point, it is also worth mentioning that the average contemporary power station still runs primarily on large coal-fired steam turbines.

18th May '13 9:44:13 AM petrus4

Send petrus4 a PM notification explaining the badness of natter: natter-fy

Changed line(s) 22,23 (click to see context) from:

to:

This list shows the last 10 events of 16. Show all.

new edits

TV Tropes by TV Tropes Foundation, LLC is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org.
Privacy Policy