Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, January 2, 2011 at 10:46pm.
Heat engines produce mechanical or electrical energy from heat. That excludes electric motors from consideration.
A steam turbine can in some cases be one PART of a heat engine, but a burner, geothermal source or nuclear reactor would have to be part of the complete heat engine system.
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