Mountain Battery
Marc Landry
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Mountain Battery

The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age

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"By the end of the nineteenth century, Europeans had come to see the Alps as the ideal place to fashion an alternative to the era's dominant energy source: coal. After 1850, Alpine water increasingly became "white coal": a power source with the revolutionary economic potential of fossil fuel. In this book, Marc Landry shows how dam-building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries transformed the Alps into Europe's "battery" - an energy landscape designed to store and produce electricity for use throughout the Continent. These stores of energy played an important role in supplying the war eco...