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Howdy folks.

What's with the steam engine pollution? Shouldn't all the pollution come from the boilers?

I'm thinking about this with nuclear power in mind, where there is next to no pollution, but the power is still produced by pushing steam through a steam engine.

Steam engines are totally clean. You can test this by running a hot water pipe to a pollution-free area and hooking up a steam engine.

I think he's talking about the water vapour clouds.

This is a property of water, it becomes less wet at a point of temperatur

DaveMcW wrote:Steam engines are totally clean. You can test this by running a hot water pipe to a pollution-free area and hooking up a steam engine.

Oh! Excellent.

Khyron wrote:I think he's talking about the water vapour clouds.

Yeah, the clouds are what threw me off. At least it's an easy fix to comment out the smoke from the steam engine.

Thanks!

Well it is on other planet. So maybe for biters Steam is actually toxic