Intermediate Technology: Micro Hydro

Series

Series Name: Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

268

Date Released

1981

Length of issue (in feet)

522

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

COI synopsis: Our modern high tech society devours the landscape in an endless, thirsty quest for energy. The Intermediate Technology Group is determined that the developing world should not waste its precious resources in the same way. They feel that imposing Western technology on a Third World society is inappropriate and destructive. Low cost, labour intensive development is their only way for progress without cultural death. Perhaps the West has something to learn. Electricity may seem an unattainable dream for remote areas; but a modernised water power project perfected in rural England could make reality of a dream. Even small streams can be used to make electricity. All you need is a simple turbine; cheap and easy to make in any workshop. Add a little high tech in the shape of a pocket sized electronic governor; cheap enough to be disposable and needing no maintenance. Now, even the furthest flung village can have electricity on tap.

Researcher Comments

Story also appears in ‘Living Tomorrow No. 301’

Keywords

Science and technology; Engineering; Energy resources; Design

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/268

Credits:

Cutter: Allen Bowry
Sponsor: Central Office of Information (COI)
Sponsor: Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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