Take a look at a modern supercritical steam turbine, this thing can run on 600C steam. there's nothing archaic about it (it can be more efficient as a part of combined cycle)

Hydropower and windmills are older than steam

I had an idea for a dumb Star Trek meme, based on the episode where they explain how Romulan warp drives work, but extrapolating that to "it boils water and spins a turbine". Maybe one of the Star Trek memers can take this and run with it?

Three of your four examples are already outputting mechanical energy of motion so don't need the intervening conversion step provided by steam.