Reading the comments, it would seem most everyone here thinks that the usefulness of the steam is done when it gets used to turn a turbine at high pressure.
The steam can be used for much more than once. In the 1800's and early 1900s when steam ran trains and ships, they built double and triple expansion engines that took the energy of the steam two and three times before it was done. It doesn't need to be one and done. And when the energy is done being harvested for power generation, it can used for other things. Engineers today aren't dumber than the ones in the 1800s.
I can remember a small rural Minnesota town that had their own coal fired electric plant. (Built back before the REA was a thing). They took the left over steam from power generation and then piped it to around 200 homes in the town and heated them with the leftover steam. While a bit costly to install, it was dirt cheap to run. Those homes lost all that when the power plant was shut down and they had to switch to either natural gas, fuel oil, LP, or electricity.
So don't get hung up on just the power generation. Think what could be beyond that point.
Yep. They get so bent out of shape when they complain about all the trump signs and flags that every one of them should have a sign next to them that says these maga signs are partially brought to you by the Minnesota State DFL.
In less than one generation, they totally destroyed generations worth of good will and votes by deciding that it is cheaper and easier to buy votes in the large metropolitan area of this state. Why drive 300+ miles in February to eat cold catered chicken and shake hands with a dirty finger nailed miner or logger when you can buy, (and yes, buying it is), all the votes cheaper and easier right out your front door that are needed to run this state.
Hell, I asked the DFL for a few pamphlets to place on a table at my county fair. I got told there was no money for it......Fcuking "Liberals".