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It is no secret that water has a strong energetic potential. However, its use to produce electricity is far from being obvious for industrial businessmen of the early XIXth century. The history of the first hydroelectric dam is related to that of Aristide Berg\u00e8s, the son of a paper manufacturer from the Ari\u00e8ge (France). In the 1860s, Berg\u00e8s moves in Is\u00e8re (France), and discovers immense glaciers that give him the idea of using water to power machines. Let\u2019s keep in mind that this is the moment when water mills are developing. Inspired by his observations on them, Berg\u00e8s uses a stream flow to power paper shredders. Unfortunately the stream alone is not sufficient. <\/span><\/p>\n

In 1869, Berg\u00e8s decides to use the energy of a 200 meters waterfall, by channeling it through a big pipe. The water\u2019s high pressure activates a turbine, which powers the paper shredders. What Berg\u00e8s invented is actually the first hydroelectric dam in France. <\/span><\/p>\n

Even the most skeptical observers of his time had to admit that Berg\u00e8s\u2019 idea was ingenious – even though Berg\u00e8s\u2019 associate himself, Dr. Marmonnier, had expressed his doubts: \u201cI am afraid, like everyone else, of this formidable pressure in only one pipe\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Later, during the 1889 Universal Exhibition, hydraulic energy is renamed \u201cwhite coal\u201d, referring to the coal energy, very commonly used at that time. Nowadays, there is a \u201c<\/span>museum of white coal<\/span><\/a>\u201d in Is\u00e8re, in tribute to Aristide Berg\u00e8s. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-2001","paleoinventions","type-paleoinventions","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe first french hydroelectric dam - Paleo-Energy Storage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/stockage.paleo-energetique.org\/en\/paleoinventions\/the-first-french-hydroelectric-dam\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The first french hydroelectric dam - Paleo-Energy Storage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It is no secret that water has a strong energetic potential. 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