Renewable generation: The British experience

✍ Scribed by Christopher G Thomas

• Book ID: 103979744
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 435 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0960-1481
• DOI: 10.1016/0960-1481(96)88911-7

✦ Synopsis

Renewable energy has been with us for a long time; before electricity was invented windmills and waterwheels provided power for industry.

With the coming of the Industrial Revolution, power became the almost-exclusive province of the coal industry. Coal was hewn in appalling conditions by low-paid miners, and was burnt inefficiently, accompanied by volumes of smoke from vast numbers of chimneys. The population choked.