A boiler consumes a maximum of 1.8 MJ of fuel and 60 water every second to produce steam when the steam engine requires it or there is storage available in the connected pipe work. Remember that 1 MW means 1 MJ of energy is produced or consumed every second - that’s the physics definition of power. More @Wikipedia
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