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Europe’s Rhine power: connections, borders, and flows

This article explores the pivotal position of the river Rhine in the gradual development of a European electricity system. Although the general image of the Rhine is one of a inland transport corridor, it also acted as a backbone of electricity supply systems since the dawn of the 20th century. By r...

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Autor principal: Lagendijk, Vincent
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4811295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27069526
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12685-015-0140-z
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spelling pubmed-48112952016-04-09 Europe’s Rhine power: connections, borders, and flows Lagendijk, Vincent Water Hist Article This article explores the pivotal position of the river Rhine in the gradual development of a European electricity system. Although the general image of the Rhine is one of a inland transport corridor, it also acted as a backbone of electricity supply systems since the dawn of the 20th century. By relying on insights from both water history and history of technology, the article argues for a transnational approach to better grasp the dynamics of river use and related electricity generation, which often went below, as well as above and beyond nation-state affairs. Springer Netherlands 2015-09-05 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4811295/ /pubmed/27069526 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12685-015-0140-z Text en © The Author(s) 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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