Kerosene
Kerosene noun - A flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters.
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- Requires reconfiguring, but there's ways to make them run on coal and coal gas, oil, kerosene, propane, gasoline and diesel fuel, natural gas, sunlight, radioactive material, plant matter and charcoal, garbage, compost, uranium ... Really, anything that gives off heat.
Source: Extreme Omnivore / Real Life -
Though Leviathan (2009) by Scott Westerfeld is definitely in the Steam Punk genre by how it's presented and what kind of story it is, the Clanker technology is more dieselpunk, as they frequently use gas, oil, kerosene, and diesel, not just steam.
Source: Diesel Punk
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