http://ghlin2.greenhills.net/~apatter/doble.html

The 1920's Doble steamers got 10-14 mpg on fuel oil

Here's a url for conversion of a VW engine to a steam engine
http://www.firedragon.com/~kap/Barrett/VWConversion.html

Almost all electric plants today are steam engines, the water is boiled
by coal, natural gas or uranium.

On Mar 17, 2004, at 3:07 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Robert Keezer wrote:
>
>> And the steam engine no one wants to see make a come back -no matter
>> what
>> the economy! Or am I terribly wrong here?
>
> Steam engines have terrible fuel economy.  Too much radiation loss from
> that big, hot boiler.
>