Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age by Marc Landry

Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age

Marc Landry

314 pages first pub 2025 (view editions)

nonfiction history science
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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 rev...

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