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Originally Posted by ThermionicScott
Steam engines blew up with fatal results often enough when built and operated by professionals. I'd leave it a thought experiment.  |
And diesel engines can spring a leak in the injector lines which can fatally hypodermically inject diesel fuel into your body (which I've gotten injection line leaks twice so far in my diesel.)
The reason that steam engines exploded is from using a tank type boiler. This also remedied by using a monotube boiler. In a worse case scenario a section of the boiler tube will break apart and you'd have a scalding hot stream of steam coming out, but no explosion due to the inability of a large pool of water to flash boil.