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A View To A Kilowatt: Fit For A Bond Villain, This Massive Swiss Power Plant Hides Beneath The Alps

P D Olson
October 10, 2017
Imagine the silvery-white mist of a waterfall, spraying down the side of a cliff face that towers over a quaint Swiss village. Now imagine a different kind of waterfall. One that’s made by humans, processes millions of gallons of water and is hidden deep within a mountain.
Oh, and the water also flows backwards.
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Hydropower

Could This Be The Most Extreme Power Plant In The World?

Tomas Kellner
June 07, 2016

Hidden away above the tiny Swiss Alpine town of Linthal, deep inside a snowcapped granite massif, sits Europe’s newest engineering marvel. It is a hydropower plant like no other, able to generate as much electricity as a nuclear power plant and, at the flip of a switch, act as a giant battery. “It’s the only grid-scale method of storing energy,” says Maryse François, the hydrotechnology leader at GE Renewable Energy, the company that developed the technology powering the site.

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Grayson Brulte: From Quartz to Smartwatch — Will History Repeat Itself?

Grayson Brulte Brulte Company
November 26, 2014
As smartwatches become more prevalent, it might be worthwhile for the venerable Swiss watch industry to reflect back on the turbulent 1970s following the advent of the quartz watch.
 
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Roberto Crotti and Cecilia Serin: Being Sustainable Makes You More Competitive — Not Less

Cecilia Serin World Economic Forum
Roberto Crotti World Economic Forum
October 27, 2014
For the last three years, the World Economic Forum has been working on better analysing and measuring how sustainability relates to national competitiveness.
 
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