“In 1908 Homestake Gold Mine announced a bold project. It planned to move Spearfish Creek water through tunnels its workforce would cut through solid rock – totaling 23,862 feet. This water, taken out of Spearfish Canyon, would generate electrical power in Spearfish to revolutionize mining operations. While the adventure of tunneling through the canyon's west wall has intrigued Black Hills history buffs for generations, it was just one component in Homestake’s commitment to early 20th century industrial technology. This book tells the full story – expert engineering, tough laborers, naysayers, and a labor dispute that temporarily brought everything to a standstill.” – back cover.
This book explores how homeowners, co-ops, nonprofit institutions, and other entities are putting power in the hands of local communities through distributed energy programs and energy-efficiency measures. Using examples from around the nation, Pahl explains how to plan and launch community-scale energy projects to harvest energy.
Contains all the formal opinions and accompanying orders of the Federal Power Commission ... In addition to the formal opinions, there have been included intermediate decisions which have become final and selected orders of the Commission issued during such period.
"This publication, the sixth in this series issued by the Federal Power Commission, presents data as of January 1, 1972, on the capacity, generation, and other characteristics of the developed and undeveloped hydroelectric power resources of the United States. Principal statistics are shown by major drainages and river basins and by geographic divisions and States"--Page iii.
We are at an environmental impasse. Many blame our personal choices about the things we consume and the way we live. This is only part of the problem. Different forms of social power - political, economic and ideological - structure the choices we have available. This book analyses how we make social and environmental history and why we end up where we do. Using case studies from different environmental domains – earth and water, air and fire – Nature, Choice and Social Power examines the form that social power takes and how it can harm the environment and hinder our efforts to act in our own best interests. The case studies challenge conventional wisdoms about why gold is valuable, why the internal combustion engine triumphed, and when and why suburbs sprawled. The book shows how the power of individuals, the power of classes, the power of the market and the power of the state at different times and in different ways were critical to setting us on a path to environmental degradation. It also challenges conventional wisdoms about what we need to do now. Rather than reducing consumption and shrinking from outcomes we don’t want, it proposes growing towards outcomes we do want. We invested massive resources in creating our problems; it will take equally large investments to fix them. Written in a clear and engaging style, the book is underpinned with a political economy framework and addresses how we should understand our responsibility to the environment and to each other as individuals within a large and impersonal system.
