Hello and welcome to this episode of Epox where I should be talking all about the history of

Steam and I'm joined by Alex Masters. How are you sir? Hello, good afternoon. Yes, I'm very well. Thank you.

It's great to have you on. Thank you. Yes, great to be here. I should be picking your brain. I should be

genuinely learning things. Hopefully. I'm sure I will. Always good. I'm sure I will. Okay, so because your wheelhouse is steam. Yes. All things steam.

Hopefully, yes.

So one of the things I definitely want to talk about at some point is sort of the technical side and the history of it all.

But I thought before we go there, just talk generally a bit about sort of the world of steam more broadly.

Yeah.

In the modern era, I mean. Well. In the modern era, I mean.

Well, in the modern era, it's, it's quite an interesting sort of field.

There's a sort of little and large, I suppose you could say,

because the large stuff is an awful lot of electricity generation is all done by steam. Nuclear power plants are just big steam

engines. And nuclear engineers get very upset when you say, all right, so it's just a big steam

engine. Yeah. But that's what it is. And combined cycle gas turbines and all the rest of it,

where you have a gas turbine and then what have you got in the exhaust? You've got a steam engine to get even more power out of it and things like that. So there's a lot of it still about.

Well, I've actually, I said this to you once before when you was on the podcast a while ago.

I said I feel like we're living in sort of an augmented steam age still. Yes.

If aliens came down, they would be like, you guys are still in a steam age.

Yeah.

Because I remember asking you, you know, like even the, in France they've got like that nuclear fission, or is it fusion?

You know, the one with the chamber full of plasma?

Oh, fusion.

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