Tesla?? SCREW THAT!!! STEAM, and I don't mean "Stanley"

Awesome video....What I wouldn't give to see Jay Leno's garage
Our newer boats used steam generators for heating rather than fire tube marine boilers.
That car works exactly like steam driven generators in power generation
Boiler generators steam that is heated again and is superheated steam, which turns the high pressure turbines, the steam exhausted than turns a intermediate turbine and finally a low pressure turbine....Steam is than exhausted to the condensers were it flashes to what is called condensate water and the cycle begins again
A little more complicated than that but basically the way it works
Not all that long ago steam would power equipment. We had the last derrick in the city of New York that was powered by steam. There was the Derick engineer who ran the crane and he was the only person who still held that licence.
The fireman was responsible for operating the boiler.
I pulled many a tube and replaced it on that boiler..... The pile driver was operated by steam as was the winches and the crane itself
In the winter the fireman had to drain the boiler every night so nothing would freeze and come in early to fire it up again.....
It was a lot of work....What happened was eventually compressed air operated the winches and pile driver.
The new rig is a crawler crane which rides back and forth on a mat and the pile driver runs off of a lager diesel air compressor
Im into anything steam and I held a NYC stationary engineers licence for 45 years
So I really enjoyed the video......Thanks