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Edison had invented the first viable electric utility, but he couldn’t envision the next logical step: the consolidation of electricity production into giant power plants and the creation of a national grid to share the
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"In Manhattan, there is a 2,500-megawatt-per-square mile demand,"
Scientific American Editors • Designing the Urban Future: Smart Cities
Commercial electricity generation began in 1882, with three firsts. Two of them were the pioneering coal-fired generating stations designed by Thomas Edison (Holborn Viaduct in London began operating in January 1882; Pearl Street station in New York in September 1882), and the third was the first hydroelectric station (on the Fox River in Appleton,
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For a clearer picture of energy transformation, let’s dive a few miles below the Earth’s surface to a natural gas reservoir beneath the Permian Basin.2 Natural gas stores energy in chemical bonds between hydrogen and carbon. The gas travels to the surface through a natural gas well and then moves to a processing facility, where contaminants are rem... See more