ICEs have intrinsic drawbacks: They require fossil fuels, they produce a lot of pollution, and they're noisy. Steam engines, by comparison, are very quiet, very clean, and can use almost any fuel.

A 1937 steam locomotive is getting a makeover in a bid to prove the viability of solid biofuel and modern steam locomotive technology. Sustainable Rail International May 24, 2012, 6:33 PM EDT ...

How might the steam engine have helped with pollution? The heat in a steam engine is not created in the cylinders like a gasoline engine. The steam generator's burner can use a variety of fuels.

Formula 1 engines typically operate at more than 17,000rpm, while aircraft turbine engines turn at 85,000rpm and above. "One difficulty was getting a turbine and transmission system in such a small ...

Malcolm Brabant: While steam engines pump out carbon dioxide, along with water vapor, the biggest environmental impact of the locomotive age was to encourage air pollution by other heavy industries.

On a cold day, a new train puffs out clouds that look like smoke, just like a traditional steam engine. But the train—which runs on hydrogen fuel cells, not coal—doesn’t create any climate ...

Reporting from Newport News, Va. — When archaeologists and Navy divers recovered the warship Monitor’s steam engine from the Atlantic in 2001, the pioneering Civil War propulsion unit was ...

Engines will not be recalled, as several environmental groups had lobbied for, but instead will be outfitted with new pollution limiters when they are routinely rebuilt or overhauled. The companies ...

In a letter to his wife in March 1901, pioneering French painter Claude Monet lamented the bad weather that prevented him from working, as well as another conspicuous impediment to his creativity.

Cyclone-Williams steam engine moves towards the starting line of the World Speed Record. The steam engine could eventually be placed into everyday passenger and commercial vehicles.

Britain's steam trains could soon be powered by POO to prevent pollution Credit: SWNS. The “biocoal” is produced by ­pressurising sewage under water at 250°C before condensing it into solid ...