Everybody wants to talk about the technology of steampunk but never what fuel is needed to run it. It's coal btw. Might as well call that shit coal-fantasy.

"uhhh... oh, that's not coal smoke, it's steam! steam from the steamed punks we're having! mmmm, steamed punks!"

ever since i found out that nuclear plants produce power by just making steam really fast, and therefore nuclear power is also steampunk, i've been so mad about this

hey you don't have to power those boilers with coal OR itanium or whatever. the reason there isn't much old growth forest in the northeastern United States is most of it was chopped down to fuel trains in the 1800s.