I have a world set in the 1920 s , and I ' ve made it a world without oil . But there ' s one thing I simply cannot stand . Steampunk in the sense of ridiculously elaborate machines ostensibly powered by steam or whale oil or something . Always strikes me as an attempt to include cool modern day things in a historical setting . If you ' re prepared to make something completely different than reality , fair enough . But don ' t just stick a chimney on an Abrams tank and call it steampunk . So while some things are powered by coal that aren ' t usually , mostly if it requires oil to run , it doesn ' t exist . Heavier than air flight , for example . No bizarre creations of boilerplate and steam . <| sep |> How does this fare vs the PNY 1311 drives or MX 300