Energy relies on land, and as we stop relying on buried sunshine and move to current solar flows, this will become increasingly the case. The images below show two examples of how energy use from land could be organised, in a schematic way. David MacKay puts energy land uses onto an image of the UK. CONTINUE READING
History of gas and electricity networks
History of electricity system Initially, electricity networks were developed independently in towns and cities, sometimes by the local government, sometimes by enterprising wealthy individuals, and so were a mixture of private and publicly owned local systems. These were electrically separate. In some cases this provided a substantial income to local governments. From 1926 to 1933, the CONTINUE READING