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[-] cuchilloc@lemmy.world 43 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Steampunk is powered by magical non-heated water vapor motors rule.

[-] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 31 points 3 months ago

Steampunk implies extremely polluting industrialized and unbathed Victorian slave labor rule.

[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 months ago

I mean...a steam engine is a heat engine that uses steam to transfer heat. So you can make a steam engine by getting basically anything "really hot" and running steam through it. This is the working principle behind solar thermal power plants (but not solar panels!). I.e., you don't necessarily need coal or even a fossil fuel to build a steam engine.

[-] JayDee@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Yes, but the whole aesthetic of steam punk is fantastical machines that operate on Victorian-era technology, which would be coal-fire steam engines.

[-] cuchilloc@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

But if you put mirrors or magnifying glass as the heat source you lean too much towards solarpunk :)

[-] oo1@lemmings.world 7 points 3 months ago

If you do enough annoying wordplay to cause enough people to boil over with anger you can get Punpunk.

[-] cuchilloc@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

But what feeds your punpunk motors? Gleecerine?

[-] oo1@lemmings.world 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah but make sure you get the high mocktane stuff, too weak and you end up with punypunk.

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