A new way to generate electricity from water
Water has long been a source of renewable power. More than 2,000 years ago the Chinese used water wheels to grind grain and pound ore. In the 1700s water wheels kickstarted the Industrial Revolution in Britain. In the 1870s a Victorian industrialist, William Armstrong, installed the world’s first hydroelectric system to light his family home, Cragside, in north-east Britain.
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