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Table of contents:
Introduction
The geographies of energy
Experimentation
Tesla versus Edison: the war of electrical currents
Tesla's tower: wireless transmission
Speculation
Atlantropa: utopia and distopia
Nuplex: atoms for peace
Matrix: the productive body
Utilisation
Terminals: consumption à la carte
Heat islands: intangible variations?
Artefacts
Search and extraction
Prospecting: the X-raying of resources
Mines: following the seam
The mining of oil sands: new frontiers for oil
Wells: vampirising black gold
Platforms: extractor islands
Transformation
Power plants: factories of light
Wind farms: tradition renewed
Solar orchards: extensive farming
Dams: moulding hydroterritories
Processing
Refineries: distillation and enrichment
Transportation and storage
Conduit networks: continuous transport
Cables and pylons: the electric spider's web
Dotted lines: discontinuous transport and mobile storage
Vladimir Shukov: the genesis of large-scale transport
Silos and storage tanks: functional forms
Afterwards
Graveyards
Sacrifices
Submerged cities: contemporary
Atlantises
Accidents
Disasters: when power gets out of control
Acid rain: disfiguration
Blackouts: landscapes of darkness
Graveyards
The storing of nuclear waste: Nowheresville
Ruins
Company towns: ephemeral cities
Abandoned rigs: drifting skeletons
Gunkanjima: the ghost town
Carrizo Plain: pioneer at the wrong time
Lemóniz: the power station that never came on stream
Belgrade: Power and Light
Recycling
From mines to parks: beyond extraction
IBA Emscher Park: renovated territory
Zeche Zollverein: from production to leisure
Ferropolis: the garden of mechanical dinosaurs
From power stations to museums: beyond transformation
Resurrection: from electricity power stations to museums
Tate Modern: icon of the transformation
The Besòs thermal power station: potential for development
Storing other things: beyond storage
Rehabilitation of the CEPSA oil tanks: cultural containers
The gasometers of Vienna: communal housing
Promises?
Evolution
The Spittelau incinerator: a facelift
Proaza Hydroelectric Power Station: a pioneering design
Coachwork: urban quality for nearby artefacts
Vall d'en Joan Park: from rubbish tip to energy-producing park
Hybridisation
Bahrein WTC: windmills in the towers
Mont Cenis: sun and shade
Solar Ark: landmark(eting)
The Forum photovoltaic pergola: an early 21st-century icon
Promises?
Free cooling: exploiting natural thermal potential
Biomass: energy-producing crops
Solar farms: colonising the desert
Solar fabrics: from rigidity to flexibility
Microgeneration: dismounting pyramidal hierarchy
The Tesla Roadster: a new generation of electric cars
Marine energy systems: taming a giant
Coldmines: air conditioning from snow
Sky sails: kites of the future
Energetic algae: green gold
Energy islands: multiproduction marine clusters
Space farms: cosmic harvests
Conclusions
Bibliography
Picture credits
Acknowledgements
Este libro analiza cómo las grandes estructuras implícitas en el sector de la producción de energía se relacionan con el paisaje que nos rodea. Lejos de ser un compendio enciclopédico o un manual técnico, el libro constituye un instrumento de análisis de los sistemas, las cadenas de producción y los artefactos energéticos que trata de revelar las numerosas facetas que nos ofrece el mundo de la energía cuando entra en contacto con el territorio que nos circunda, y cómo sus innovaciones se integran armónicamente en él.
El examen de multiplicidad de artefactos energéticos -desde minas y canteras, hasta refinerías, plataformas y granjas espaciales- incluye plantas en funcionamiento, instalaciones abandonadas, construcciones reconvertidas y planteamientos innovadores. A través de esta exploración se desvelan sorprendentes significados que van mucho más allá del estricto valor técnico de las infraestructuras energéticas.
