https://interestingengineering.com/energy/steam-driven-nuclear-fusion-reactor
"In a global first, Richmond, Canada-headquartered fusion energy company General Fusion achieved the first-ever plasma in a reactor driven by steam."
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Which is exactly why when Einstein got the Nobel Prize when he discovered the photoelectric! Kind of a big deal when basically everything before that was turbine driven, as you mention.
Everything before that and almost everything after that.
The only exception i know is fermenting biomass to methane and burning it.