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You joke about steampunk arms being totally useless but DARPA actually funded and built a steampunk arm powered using highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide and a catalyst to produce stupidly high temperature and pressure steam fairly easily, which could then be used to actuate a bunch of pistons. In the original design it was going to have a giant heat exchanger thing in the place of the skin to stop it burning everything but in practice what actually happened was it vented superheated steam everywhere because lol. And they wanted this to be used in the army so that guys who lost an arm could still be in the army I think, because the arm would meet the military fitness requirements or something idk. Also lol that "iXtender" poo poo. No Manufacturing or mechanical engineers on the team? Have fun with your stupidly flimsy design that costs 3 times as much to make as anything remotely competing.
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Sweevo posted:they really knew how to build poo poo back then too. there are steam engines that ran 24/7 for decades without ever requiring a single component replacing. They were also horribly ineffecient and expensive to operate, lukcily no one gave a gently caress because there wasn't anything better. Also britain still had coal back then I guess which helped (before we mined it all)
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