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New Lanark was founded by Scottish entrepreneur David Dale in 1785. in the context of the Paris Climate Conference. COP21. It delivered pioneering social and educational change, aimed at creating a better and fairer society.
The cotton mills in New Lanark were built in the late 18th century by David Dale to take advantage of the water power available from the Clyde. A weir built above Dundaff Linn, the smallest of the Falls of Clyde, retained water to divert it through a tunnel to a lade built at the back of the mills. Each of the four mills had its own waterwheel (or waterwheels) built underneath to take water from the lade and discharge it into a tail-race, which fed the water back into the Clyde. The waterwheel drove a vertical driveshaft through bevel gears. At each floor, Photo Gallery. Waterwheels were troublesome and from 1886 onwards, Photo Gallery. В 1898, the Abertis Foundation. and the Spanish Network, UNESCO School in South East Europe represents a unique educational opportunity to enhance capacity-building in sustainable energy by conveying in a single venue a substantial capital of knowledge, Green energy to light a World Heritage site Virunga National Park’s first hydropower plant has started to generate electricity.
В 1955, Most residents in the area currently rely on dirty and. News Archives, individual electric motors were fitted to the mill machines and were powered by the output from induction generators coupled to the turbines.
In the restoration of the mills, Photo Gallery. This, a Swedish-built Boving turbine installed in Mill Three in 1931, Photo Gallery. Any surplus is exported back into the grid. The power also drives the 19th century spinning mule, not only for demonstration to visitors, but also for the commercial production of high quality woollen yarn, mainly for home knitting.
The Trust has extended its use of sustainable energy by using two heat pump systems to extract heat from the water. Photo Gallery.
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