Pressurized water supply
The pressurized water supply is an early form of a power supply , transmission and storage means under pressure standing water in a pipe network .
In the early modern period , energy was distributed to end consumers in some cities via a pressurized water network, for example in Geneva . The Coulouvrenière power station , which was built from 1883 to 1886, fed 32 pumps into a pressurized water network, which was initially used by 95 traders to operate water motors. At the end of 1889 there were more than 200 such house turbines .
In Frankfurt were hoists the western harbor by a Druckwasserwerk fed, originally the main station should provide.
Individual evidence
- ^ Daniel Vischer: From the waterway to the energy axis. History and current status of hydropower use on the Upper Rhine. In: The citizen in the state. Volume 50, Issue 2, 2000, Page 29 (PDF file 3.95 MB).
- ↑ A. Riedler: Emil Rathenau and the becoming of the large economy. Monograph, 1916, Springer, Berlin