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Mountain Battery Susan A. Fowler Brero the VaqueroBy the end of the nineteenth century, Europeans had come to see the Alps as the ideal place to fashion an alternative to the era's dominant energy source: coal. After 1850, Alpine water increasingly became "white coal": a power source with the revolutionary economic potential of fossil fuel. In this book, Marc Landry shows how dam building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries transformed the Alps into Europe's "battery" an energy landscape