Build a big tank.

Take four fifty gallon drums, cut them down their centers, and construct a big waterwheel out of them.

Put the waterwheel in the tank so that the axis pokes out one side through an airtight seal.

place a pipe in the tank under the water wheel with a check valve.

Fill the tank with water.

Seal off the top of the tank. One pipe goes in and one comes out at the top.

Build a boiler and hearth.

Steam goes in one pipe and the other pipe leads to a condensation chamber.

The steam comes in, condenses, collapses, causes vacuum, and draws air through the pipe below the waterwheel.

The bubbles will want to go up, and they will turn the wheel.

The part of the wheel axel that is sticking out of the tank is hooked to some sort of device to gear it up to generator speeds.

Hook up valves appropriately, and you have a steam engine that converts steam to rotary motion without a piston. And you can build it at home with the help of your country-ass friends and run it on debris from Katrina.

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