Getting Electricity from Rivers Without Dams
Content Keyword RSS | March 12, 2009
Before the industrial revolution and the invention of electricity, communities all over the world had water mills that relied on river currents turning turbines (a wheel in the water) to produce products like flour, lumber and textiles. In fact, the water mill is an iconic form of the 18th and 19th centuries. Last night on the Discovery Channel, I learned about an alternative energy project curiously similar to the thinking behind old water mills: Putting turbines in rivers. The documentary
