I would love to build a steam turbine couple to an AC armature drive system, basically like a locomotive.
To fuel the high pressure turbine would be a fuel system from pellets, very easy to make an auger feed, and its even easy to make your own with a large commercial meat grinder. You just save anything that burns from newspaper to toilet paper, make a slurry out of it using a portable concrete mixer, add some used bacon grease for a binder and get it into a pastelike slurry, and then feed it into a meat grinder so it comes out in short pellets.
Allow to dry completely on racks much like a large dehydrator, keep in a hopper on your personal steamer vehicle, oh and yes you do need to dress for Steampunk.
Aren’t steam engines prone to explosions?
Why not just build a car that runs on “Producer gas”? The Russians used them back in WWII.
It is a wood stove, using a smothered fire that burns carbon monoxide and smoke.
Light the stove, suck off the gas, run it into the engine and it runs the piston engine.
I looked into this back when CARTER the INCOMPETENT was occupying the WH. Don’t know how it would work with today’s non-carburated autos.
Why waste energy with the conversion to electric?
Just put a suitable transmission behind the turbine.