The first involves a plan by U.S. President Donald Trump to improve America's infrastructure, its roads, tunnels, railways, water, power, and even broadband internet projects.
To take such a incredibly famous place that's got this extraordinary water power and harness it to electricity was going to make the case to the world that this was something you could do everywhere.
Cities can be good for the planet, too — their compact nature means that water, power, building materials, transportation, and land can be used super-efficiently.
And that meant that water power, so the water wheel and rivers, that kind of energy, wasn't needed any more, because we had steam-powered engines which were far more efficient, and so factories could therefore be built anywhere.
I mean people have suggested all sorts of weird things like kites and water power and so on but there's no evidence for anything other than manpower and very basic engineering knowledge which they're great at.
Now, in the past, fixed rotary motion for industrial purposes, with grinding corn or blowing a furnace bellows or whatever, had only been achievable by wind power, water power, human or animal power.
Soon these processes were mechanized using water power, until the steam engine came along to make flying shuttles really fly in these huge cotton mills.
Jake learned that there are other ways to make electricity, like water power from dams, such as the Three Gorges Dam, and wind power from big wind turbines with spinning blades.
Often the development of water power in connection with irrigation afforded electricity for labor-saving devices and lifted many a burden that in other days fell heavily upon the shoulders of the farmer and his family.