{"id":605,"date":"2006-01-29T10:35:10","date_gmt":"2006-01-29T15:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=605"},"modified":"2006-02-01T14:02:13","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T19:02:13","slug":"steam-powered-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"Steam-Powered Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick entry to call attention to something I posted over on the Core77 main page concerning some steam-powered toys (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/never_serious_sometimes_steamed_3354.asp\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>). Very cool (and funny too).<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, I got to thinking that as quaint as those devices are, most people probably don&#8217;t realize that much of the power flowing through the grid is the result of steam turbine-generated electricity. Whether it&#8217;s the relatively straight-forward heat exchange system of a nuclear power plant or one of the newer &#8220;combined cycle&#8221; power plants (e.g. coal-derived gas is used to first turn an electrical turbine and then sent to heat water to generate steam which turns another turbine), &#8220;steam power&#8221; is all around us. Given that fact of life, it&#8217;s seems odd how <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steampunk\" target=\"blanket\">steampunk<\/a> devices are often depicted: as something originating from the Victorian age.  Here&#8217;s one example (<a href=\"http:\/\/grevesons.users.btopenworld.com\/#\">Link<\/a> &#8211; see the &#8220;Stevenson&#8221; image links) I came across yesterday and which I recall from a CGChat competition some time back. Great piece and good example of what I&#8217;m getting at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick entry to call attention to something I posted over on the Core77 main page concerning some steam-powered toys (Link). Very cool (and funny too). Additionally, I got to thinking that as quaint as those devices are, most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=605\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}