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[quote]QUOTE: What if instead of using a fuel heat water into steam could a steam engine be equipped instead with an air compressor? I saw this used on various models at a craft show. Model steam engines and other gizmos had their moving parts powered by compressed air. [/quote] You would still need a giant engine to drive the air compressor, so now instead of just a large engine, you have a large engine hooked up to a large air compressor. A large engine would use an INCREDIBLE amount of compressed air, therefore you would probably need a bunch of tenders filled with compressed air as well as an engine to continuously keep the air pressure up in the large tenders. If it was even feesable on a smaller scale, then we would most likely all have cars running on compressed air.... same probablem though, where to store it all? I'm no mechanic though, that's just my two cents.
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